Volcanic Updates For Volcano Hawaii
Volcano and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park are safe and open for business and adventure!
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Current Volcanic Update: March 6th, 2023
Eruption Details
Halemaumau Crater at the summit of Kilauea is filled with lava once more!
Mauna Loa erupted for the first time in 40 years in November 2022 and is silent once more.
Lava viewing areas are currently open within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. As of December 31st 2022, the National Park Service (NPS) has re-opened Mauna Loa Summit Road. Mauna Loa's summit areas remain closed.
Kilauea Volcano Eruption & Collapse Event
May - August 2018
Volcano, Hawai'i is situated on Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world. Between May - August 2018, the volcano entered an historic eruptive phase. The Volcano area experienced numerous earthquakes and collapse events at the summit, moving lava from the two active vents, Pu'u O'o and Halemaumau craters down the East Rift Zone. A massive outbreak of activity occurred near the coast, creating an extended fissure system and lava river channel along the Lower East Rift Zone (LERZ).
Ken Hon
(SIC) (USGS)
Talmadge Magno (Hawaii County Civil Defense)
Rhonda Loh
(Superintendent) (HVNP)
Eruption Pause & Recovery
Since August 2021, the extensive lava activity has paused. The island and its people are recovering with the spirt of resilience and restoration. Currently, there are few and unnoticeable low magnitude earthquakes, no collapse events, and no lava at the summit or at the coastal Lower East Rift Zone (LERZ). Earthquake and deformation data show no accumulation, withdrawal, or significant movement of subsurface magma or pressurization as would be expected if the system was building toward a resumption of activity. The United States Geological Society (USGS) of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) continue to closely monitor Kilauea's seismicity, deformation, and gas emissions for any sign of reactivation, and maintains visual surveillance of both the summit and Lower East Rift Zone.
Volcano Village is the Gateway Community to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Since August, the extensive lava activity has paused. The island and its people are recovering with the spirt of resilience and restoration. Currently, there are few and unnoticeable low magnitude earthquakes, no collapse events, and no lava at the summit or at the coastal
Lower East Rift Zone (LERZ). Earthquake and deformation data show no accumulation, withdrawal, or significant movement of subsurface magma or pressurization as would be expected if the system was building toward a resumption of activity. The United States Geological Society (USGS) of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) continue to closely monitor Kilauea's seismicity, deformation, and gas emissions for any sign of reactivation, and maintains visual surveillance of both the summit
and Lower East Rift Zone.
Volcano is a perfect home base from which to explore the magical rainforests and volcanic landscapes in the National Park, coastal flow areas, black sand beaches, waterfalls, botanical gardens, the natural beauty and the many active adventures and on the
Volcano side of the Big Island.