The current Kīlauea eruption began on January 3, 1983, along the East rift zone at the Pu’u ‘Ō’ō vent, where vigorous fountaining built up Puʻu ʻŌʻō cone and sent lava flows downslope. In 1986, activity shifted downrift to a new vent, named Kupaianaha (“mysterious” or “astonishing” in Hawaiian), where it took on a more effusive character. Kupaianaha built into a [...]
National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting documents the eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano
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This was filmed in April of 2007 on the Big Island of Hawaii. The volcano is called Mauna Loa and is constantly sending lava daily into the sea. When I was filming this the heat was UNbearable. When you get this close You don’t want to fall over in the wrong place. I was about 3 to 4 feet at [...]
3-minute, extended version of the original 1:05 clip! More lightning, more “waterspouts”! See slow-motion lightning at 2:30. Lava enters ocean, explodes & produces volcanic cloud with vortex (looks like a tornado, but it’s not) & lightning. Spatter lands nearby on a littoral cone. As the hot plume rises, it draws up cooler air and moisture from the sea, forming a [...]
Historic 16mm footage of Halemaumau erupting in 1961. Fred Rackle filmed this eruption, shortly after he documented the 1959 & 1960 eruptions of Kilauea Iki and Kapoho. In 1994, Rackle set up a 16mm projector in his living room in Makaha Towers, and taped the decades-old film footage with a VHS camera while he narrated. Then he donated the VHS [...]
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svs.gsfc.nasa.gov Drainhole piston at night. Duration: 13.0 seconds Aerosols smaller than 1 micrometer are mostly formed by condensation processes such as conversion of sulfur dioxide (SO2) gas (released from volcanic eruptions) to sulfate particles and by formation of soot and smoke during burning processes. After formation, the aerosols are mixed and transported by atmospheric motions and are primarily removed by [...]
Historic film footage of volcanic eruptions in Hawaii.
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