Kilauea Volcano Eruption 2025 Facts

Kilauea Volcano Eruption 2025 Facts. The 2018 eruption of kīlauea volcano (hawai‘i) was its most impactful in centuries, involving an outpouring of more than one cubic kilometer of basalt, a magnitude 7 flank. After nearly 50 years of dormancy, kīlauea's southwest rift zone erupted in the early hours of june 3, 2025,.

Kīlauea volcano is erupting in hawai’i volcanoes national park from a new fissure vent that opened within nāpau crater this morning, september 17, between 4:00 and 5:00 am. An aerial view of the erupting pu’u ‘o’o crater on hawaii’s kilauea volcano taken at dusk on june 29, 1983.