Kilauea Volcano

Updated: 25. Apr. 2024 08:20 GMT - refresh

Shield volcano 1277 m (4,190 ft)
Hawai'i, 19.41°N / -155.29°W
Aktueller Status: Schwache Aktivität oder Ausbruchswarnung (3 von 5)

Last update: 7 Feb 2024 (Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report)

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Haleamaumau crater in the center of the Kilauea caldera - the heart of Kilauea volcano

Kilauea is the youngest and most active Hawaiian shield volcano, located on the southern part of the Island of Hawai'i, known as Big Island. Hawai'i is the southernmost and largest of the island chain, which owes its existence to the very active Hawaiian hot spot.
Kilauea volcano is near-constantly erupting from vents either on its summit (caldera) or on the rift zones. At present, Kilauea volcano is still having one of the most long-lived eruptions known on earth, which started in 1983 on the eastern rift zone and has mainly been concentrated at the Pu'u 'O'o vent.

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Typische Aktivität: Dominantly effusive since 1790, but ~60% explosive over past ~2500 years.
Ausbrüche des Kilauea: Near-continuous eruptions. Since 1960: 1961 (4x), 1962, 1963 (2x), 1965 (2x), 1967-68, 1968 (2x), 1969, 1969-74, 1971 (2x), 1973 (2x), 1974 (3x), 1975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982 (2x), 1983-2018 (incl. 1986, 1992, 1997, 2007, 2011 (3x)), 2018 (lower east rift zone in Leilani subdivision), 2020 (Dec) - 2022 (Nov), 2023 (Jan) - ongoing

Letzte Erdbeben in der Nähe

Uhrzeit	Mag. / Tiefe	Entfernung / Ort
25. Apr. 07:21 (Weltzeit)	2.5 1.7 km		7 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii	Info
24. Apr. 18:00 (Honolulu)	2.4 1.7 km		6 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii	Info
Dienstag, 23. April 2024 GMT (1 Beben)
23. Apr. 11:00 (Honolulu)	2.6 6.1 km		14 km SSE of Fern Forest, Hawaii I FELT IT	Info
Dienstag, 16. April 2024 GMT (1 Beben)
16. Apr. 06:09 (Honolulu)	2.5 5.9 km		5 km SW of Volcano, Hawaii	Info
Freitag, 12. April 2024 GMT (2 Beben)
11. Apr. 21:22 (Honolulu)	2.7 28 km	28 km südlich	13 km ESE of Pāhala, Hawaii	Info
11. Apr. 19:12 (Honolulu)	2.6 32 km		11 km ENE of Pāhala, Hawaii	Info

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Beschreibung

Kilauea volcano, a youthful shield volcano, sitting on the south east flank of the massive Mauna Loa shield volcano, is the youngest volcano (on land) of the Hawaiian hot spot and not only the most active volcano of Hawaii but at the same time also the world's active volcano. It has been in near-constant activity since there is oral or written history and it is having an uninterrupted eruption since 1983 (at present at the Pu'u 'O'o vent on the East rift zone).

Its eruptions are prominent in Hawaiian Polynesian legends and written documentation about its activity go back to only 1820s when it started to attract interested visitor from all over the world and bacame one of volcanology's hot spots.

Kilauea has a large summit caldera with a central crater, Halemaumau, which is according to Hawaiian legends the home of the fire goddess Pele. Until 1924, it contained a lava lake. Kilauea has frequent summit and flank lava flow eruptions that are occurring along two elongated rift zones to the south-west and to the east, which extend to the sea on both sides of the volcano. The 3 x 5 km caldera was formed in several stages about 1500 years ago. About 90% of the surface of the basaltic shield volcano is formed of lava flows less than about 1100 years old; 70% of the volcano's surface is younger than 600 years. The long-term eruption from the East rift zone that began in 1983 has produced lava flows covering more than 100 sq km, destroying nearly 200 houses and adding new coastline to the island.

Kilauea Volcano Photos

Der Lavasee im West Gap Krater des Kilauea Vulkans, Hawaii. Die komplette erstarrte Kruste ist soeben domino-arrtig segmentweise umgekippt und lässt für eine kurze Weile ...

Die ersten Lavaströme vom Vulkan Kilauea (Hawaii) erreichen die Küstenebene seit März 2011 (5. Dezember 2011) (Photo: Philip Ong)

Perlenschnurartig angeordnete effusive Bocchen, aus denen Lavaströme in den Kollapskrater Puka Nui am Pu'u 'O'o Krater des Kilauea Vulkans auf Hawaii strömen. hawaii_e757...