#lava lake kilauea

Kīlauea’s summit glow comes and goes frequently these days. This is due to a pattern of pauses in lava lake activity within Halema‘uma‘u crater over the last two and a half months. Cycles last several days to a week and consist of a couple days of visible lava lake activity, followed by one to three days without lava.

A rockfall from the southeast wall of the crater initiated the explosion, sending “large clots of molten splatter up to two meters across” in the vicinity of the closed visitor overlook fence.