Learn more about fascinating lava fountains and how high they can reach during a volcano eruption.

Kilauea’s lava fountains reaching 500 feet high resumed Sunday afternoon, less than a week after its latest episode paused ...

Lava fountains and flows erupted primarily from the north vent, and the south vent was largely obscured by the north vent ...

KILAUEA, Hawaii (Island News) – The 21st episode of Kilauea ended at about 8:34 p.m. on Sunday after fountaining for 8 hours.

On Dec. 23, 2024, eruptive activity at Kilauea’s summit began again with the first in what has become 20 discrete lava ...

Kilauea’s 21st eruption episode sends fountains soaring up to 150 feet in the air on Sunday afternoon, May 11, 2025.

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano sent a huge fountain of lava spewing hundred of feet into the air as it began the Episode 21 of its ...

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reports that fountains rapidly grew into vigorous 500-foot molten rock geisers that ejected from the vent as they fed lava flows that had covered about 10% to 20% of the ...

VIDEO COURTESY USGS A live view of the Kilauea eruption from the northwest rim of the caldera looking east. COURTESY USGS Kilauea volcano fountaining returned to Halemaumau crater this evening. 2 /2 ...

Lava fountains surged from the Kilauea volcano crater in Hawaii. Geologists from the US Geological Survey's (USGS) Hawaiian ...

Each episode of Halemaʻumaʻu lava fountaining since the beginning of the episodic summit eruption Dec. 23, 2024, has ...