The National Park Service reports that tephra is being carried aloft and falling onto Highway 11 (Hawaii Belt Road) in the ...

Scientists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said “episode 16” of the ongoing eruption began at 10:57 p.m. on Monday, with ...

The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported today that the “high fountain phase” of episode 16 of the ongoing Kilauea eruption ...

The episodic summit eruption of Kīlauea in Halemaʻumaʻu Crater has been going on for more than 3 months now, with 16 eruptive ...

Tephra is a general term for fragments of volcanic rock and lava that are blasted into the air by explosions or carried upward by hot gases. Tephra includes large, dense chunks, light rock debris ...

Gas emissions and rock fragments ejected from the volcano into the air, known as tephra, were the primary hazards from the eruption, the observatory said. A few hours later, another observatory ...

Hawaii County Civil Defense, meanwhile, is warning of tephra falling onto Highway 11, or Hawaii Belt Road, in the Kau District between mile markers 35 and 37. “If you are in this area ...

Those near Kīlauea may notice denser plumes of smoke or VOG. “Normally you get kind of a downwind plume. But today, what ...