Kilauea Volcano Eruption 2024 Facts. The 2018 eruption of kīlauea volcano (hawai‘i) was its most impactful in centuries, involving an outpouring of more than one cubic kilometer of basalt, a magnitude 7 flank. After nearly 50 years of dormancy, kīlauea's southwest rift zone erupted in the early hours of june 3, 2024,.
Kīlauea volcano is erupting in hawai’i volcanoes national park from a new fissure vent that opened within nāpau crater this morning, september 17, between 4:00 and 5:00 am. An aerial view of the erupting pu’u ‘o’o crater on hawaii’s kilauea volcano taken at dusk on june 29, 1983.
