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Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, has erupted for the first time in decades, and an interactive hazard map created by the County of Hawaii is providing real-time updates about the event.
A screenshot of HVO’s new ArcGIS Online web map for eruption map data, displaying FlowPolys features that depict lava flow boundaries from the 2022 Mauna Loa eruption.
Map as of 6:45 a.m. HST, May 15, shows the location of the ‘a‘ā lava flow spreading from fissure 17; the flow front at the time is shown by the small red circle with label.
Lava is continuing to ooze out of the Kīlauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island a day after it began erupting. Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory detected a glow ...
Hawaii Volcano Kilauea: New USGS Maps Capture Lava Flows and Spread. ... lava flow from Fissure 18 was less than a mile from Highway 137 before it began branching from the south side of the crack.
The lava spewing from the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii continues to flow. The leading edge remains at around 7,000 feet in elevation, creeping down the mountain at less than a mile an hour.
Fast forward to 2025, and there have been only three eruptions of Mauna Loa in the past 75 years since 1950: 1975, 1984, and ...
One of the world's most active volcanoes, Kilauea, has spewed lava fountains of 260 feet above Hawaii. Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said in its most recent update that the eruption "has stabilized ...
There’s also a hiking option.Round-trip, it’s between eight and ten miles from either Kalapana or the end of Chain of Craters Road in the national park the coastal lava plain, and the NPS ...
New eruptions from Hawaii volcano create more lava destruction 1 of 57 North facing view of the 0.6 miles long ocean entry with multiple lobes of lava flowing into the sea, June 26, 2018, in Hawaii.
Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano is continuing to erupt, but scientists say the lava flows have been slowing down as they reach relatively flat areas around the rumbling mountain.