Update at 2:47 p.m. June 20, 2025: Lava fountains peaked at dizzying heights of well more than 1,000 feet during the early morning today (June 20) after the onset at 2 a.m. of the latest eruptive ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is erupting again in spectacular fashion, sending lava shooting 1,000 feet into the sky, according ...

Hawaii’s Must-See Lava Flows Are Home to New, ... rounded moon pies of pahoehoe lava. (Pahoehoe’s Scrabble-friendly cousin aa—a sort of knee-high stone popcorn—is also plentiful in the ...

Pahoehoe lava flows easily and tends to spread out in thin layers. It can accumulate in layers behind a defensive barrier until there is a risk of overtopping.

Pahoehoe lava flows easily and tends to spread out in thin layers. It can accumulate in layers behind a defensive barrier until there is a risk of overtopping.

The film explores the geological phenomena related to volcanoes, detailing how high temperatures and pressures beneath the Earth's surface lead to eruptions, geysers, and lava flows. It discusses ...

NASA's observatory has released a new image of the Sáttítla Highlands, located in Northern California, an area renowned for its seismic activity and ancient lava flows. The Most Anticipated TV ...

At around 1800 degrees Fahrenheit, pahoehoe—“smooth” in Hawaiian—lava can flow. “It’s the same word used to define a calm sea,” says Fernández. I can picture it quite vividly.

New data for rhyolite lava flows in Yellowstone caldera suggest the eruptions occurred in tight clusters. These results change the way geologists think about lava flow and volcanic hazards.

MAUNA LOA, Hawaii (KHON2) — The volcanoes here in Hawaii are basaltic volcanoes, and they create two kinds of lava: A’a and Pahoehoe. Both are made of the same thing–minerals and … ...

A web cam atop Mauna Kea looking toward Mauna Loa showed that advancing lava flows had crossed Mauna Loa Observatory Road overnight. The images confirm two new lava flows moving ...

And then there is explosive lava diversion. As far back as 1881, it was considered to stop a lava flow headed toward Hilo. It was never tried; the pile of gunpowder remained unused, and religious ...