As promised in my last post, I’m here to talk about the 1790 Keonehelelei eruption of Kilauea. “The falling sands.” This is an article that has been developing for quite some time now. The 1790 eruption is, after all, a lot of things at the same time. The most obvious and no less important is…
It’s amazing the scale of what has happened at Kilauea volcano over a little more than a year and a half. Since the current eruption started in December 2024, the caldera has been filled with 0.31 km3 of new lava. A very respectable amount. In a series of 54 fountain episodes, the eruption has raised…
Here is the third part of my Kilauea series that was promised, a bit more delayed than I would have wished though. Many things have happened at Kilauea since the previous part. A sill intrusion took place in the Upper Southwest Rift in August, then on September 29, about a month after the sill, lava…
Kilauea is back erupting since December 20! The eruption style is typical of Kilauea, yet it’s been decades since it last showed it and many aspects have not been explained properly. The most important unanswered question being the difference between a rootless lava lake (this eruption) and a “true” lava lake. The eruption came as…