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Earthquakes Rumbling Across Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Causing Minor Damage

An ongoing series of earthquakes, some measuring a magnitude of 4.4, rumbled across Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on Wednesday, causing minor damage to park buildings while cracks crept their way across nearby roads and billowing clouds of ash and steam rose into the sky thousands of feet.

A USGS Kīlauea Activity Media Briefing

For those of you planning (or who have already planned) a trip to Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, I’ll bet, right about now, you are wondering just how long this Kīlauea Volcano eruptive activity is going to continue. Is this going to affect all of the Big Island and maybe even the entire state of Hawaii? Is your national park vacation totally ruined?

Is Kīlauea Going To Reprise 1924 Eruptions?

Fourteen-ton boulders tossed nearly a mile. Swarms of temblors quaking the East Rift Zone of Kīlauea Volcano at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. Dust and ash clouds rising a handful of kilometers into the air, and then raining down on surrounding communities. That explosive eruption was preceded by a draining of magma from a lava lake in the volcano's Halema‘uma‘u crater like we've witnessed in recent weeks.

Explosive Eruptions With 6-Foot-Wide, 2,000-Pound Projectiles Possible From Kīlauea Volcano

After cracking open the earth and spewing lava fountains more than 200 feet high at times, Kīlauea Volcano at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park next could produce explosive eruptions that eject ballistic blocks 6 feet wide and weighing a ton or more, according to the Hawaii Volcano Observatory.

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Closes Due To Powerful Quakes, Opening Of Fissures

Powerful earthquakes shook Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on Friday, causing landslides, opening fissures near the Jaggar Museum, and prompting officials to close the park to visitors and non-emergency personnel for the immediate future. To the southeast outside the park, ruptures along the East Rift Zone downslope of the Kīlauea volcano continued to ooze lava and spray fountains of molten rock into the sky.

Ongoing Transformation Of Kīlauea On Display At Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

Keep a bottle of soda tightly capped, and the gases are quiet. Rapidly uncap it, and you'll have a fountain of liquid spurting from the bottle. That, essentially, is what might happen to a coursing subterranean river of magma volcanologists are closely watching at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

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