@JustToOdd

USGS volcano cam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0tfYDxrUA

#Hawaii
#Halemaumau
#Geology
#Volcano
VolcanicEruption

@ai6yr

Been streaming this live since I first got up this morning (about six hours now) and the core of the fountain has clearly moved "forward" toward the camera, although it's still hidden behind the crater wall

Main outflow stream has also moved "foward" toward the camera and is *very* vigorous -- to the point you can actually see the darker, cooled surface of the stream actually "sloshing" like a thick gravy just above the incandescent, fluid stream

Unfortunately (as it's Christmas, I'd guess) the camera is clearly unstaffed and is running on auto

UPDATE: there is one zoom-in at about 08:38 local time (see the timestamp, upper left)

Love to see a zoom out and a pan off to the left to get a sense of what the wider scope of all this is

But this sucker has really lit off, just in time for Christmas

#Kilauea #VolcanicEruption #Hawaii #Halemaumau

The mesmerizing scenes tonight at the Halemaʻumaʻu summit crater inside the Kīlauea caldera in Hawaii.

Lava fountain heights have decreased since the eruption onset, but remain up to about 10 meters high.
Average effusion rate = ~150 cubic meters per second for the initial 24 hours.
SO2 emission rate = ~65,000 tonnes per day.

Current alert level is Orange.

https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/volcano-updates
USGS livestream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5M-5XFplo0
#Kilauea #Halemaumau #Volcano #USGS
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