From coverage to clean up, eruption to restoration🌋 Episode 41 of the Kīlauea summit eruption sent tephra raining down on Uēkahuna overlook in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. By the next morning, park staff had cleared the fallout. What's tephra? It's what you call any material that erupted by a volcano and traveled through the air before landing on the ground. During lava fountaining episodes at the summit of Kīlauea, tephra ranges in sizes from volcanic ash to Pele's hair (strands of volcani

Kīlauea episode 41 summary: ➖Episode 41 ended last night, January 24, at 7:29 p.m. HST after just over 8 hours of lava fountaining ➖Both the north and south vents erupted, with peak fountain heights of 460–480 m (1500–1575 ft) ➖Lava covered 80–85% of Halemaʻumaʻu crater floor ➖Estimated 14 million cubic yards erupted ➖Tephrafall was reported on the East side of the Island of Hawaiʻi ➖Tephra up to a foot in size fell in areas of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Highway 11 near the park entrance,

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Volcano Watch: Water in Kīlauea, and its role in its eruptions https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/news/volcano-watch-water-kilauea-and-its-role-its-eruptions When most people think of erupting water, they probably have geysers, like Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park, in mind. However, Kīlauea and its diverse style of eruptions are also significantly impacted by water. In fact, some of Kīlauea’s past explosive eruptions occurred when magma erupted through groundwater or through