Cooling Lava News Today

According to Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, it is unlikely that the recent eruption will resume based on the behavior of past, short-lived summit fissure eruptions at Kīlauea summit in 1982, 1975, 1974, and 1971, which all ended abruptly.

Five days after the two violent eruptions the ground still smoldering. >> wow. no, if its hot. really hot. about six kilometers from the crater, marcelo says it is too dangerous to go on. this is about as far as we can come. incredible. a bed of lava, steaming, smells like sulphur. even a hot breeze off of it. at the base of the volcano. a two or three hour trek if it werent full of ash. here the volcano has wiped out just about everything. the only sound, the quiet hissing of the river. running...

A two or three hour trek if it werent full of ash. here the vol kay know has wiped out just about everything. the only sound, the quiet hissing of the river. running underneath the cooling lava. shasta darlington, cnn, at the base of mount calbuco. >> you have been watching cnn. im errol barnett. stay with me. next hour. recovery efforts in nepal. and protests in baltimore, maryland. and the violence that followed. continues after this break. stay with us. ♪