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The Kīlauea summit eruption that began on Sunday continues this morning. Eruptive activity is confined to the downdropped block and Halemaʻumaʻu crater within Kīlauea’s summit caldera at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. Several lava fountains remain active on the western side of the downdropped block within Kīlauea’s summit caldera. Fountain heights have decreased since the eruption […]

Kīlauea volcano is erupting. At approximately 3:15 p.m. HST on Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023, eruptive activity was observed in Kīlauea summit webcam images and from field reports indicating that an eruption has commenced within Halemaʻumaʻu crater, according to the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

This is the fifth eruption in the past four years.

Tilt data was the first geodetic data collected by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) and continues to be incredibly important both for monitoring and basic research in volcano behavior.

The volcano has shown signs of elevated unrest with steady rates of earthquakes since Aug. 22.