Hawaii Center for Volcanology | Occasional updates on Kilauea Eruptions

The "Pu`u `O`o" eruption of Kilauea's East Rift Zone

Happy 35th Birthday to Pu`u `O`o on 3 Jan 2018!
Please visit the HVO website for volcano updates, the live Puu Oo Webcam, and recent eruption images
-AND- the Hawaii VOG Forecast Website

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One Fine Daybreak at the Pu`u `O`o cone in 1997

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Information and Links:

Current eruption information for visitors to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park from the National Park Service at 808-985-6000 or their web site: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
Detailed eruption and background information from the USGS Hawaii Volcano Obervatory web site at: http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/.
Near real-time images of the Big Island obtained by the NOAA GOES-9 satellite at: http://virtual1.pgd.hawaii.edu/goes/
Kilauea Photo gallery by the Honolulu Advertiser for the 25th anniversary of the eruption.

Site author Tweets about Kilauea activity ("top tweets" only):

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Note: this is a legacy page. it used to be updated weekly, before HVO had its own update capability. Please refer to their site for all current updates.

Earlier Updates: A detailed chronological summary of events during 'episode 55' (1997-2005) of the Pu`u `O`o eruption can be found on the episode 55 page.
PLEASE NOTE: HCV had been posting detailed eruption updates in the 1990s before web capability was established at HVO on the Big Island. HCV discontinued these detailed updates in late 1999 The latest updates can be now obtained from the Kilauea Update page of the USGS-HVO website

Visit our LISTING of Pu`u `O`o eruption episodes for a summary of previous activity and links to previous eruption update pages (where available).

CREDITS and DISCLAIMER:
This synopsis was written by Ken Rubin using information provided by the U.S.Geological Survey's Hawaii Volcano Observatory (in the form of formal press releases, personal communications and information from their HVO web site). The US Geological Survey-Hawaiian Volcano Observatory is not directly responsible for editorial changes or enhancements made by the HCV (the Hawaii Center for Volcanology) web staff, nor does it claim responsiblity in any way for the interpretive content of these pages.