HVO scientists accumulate detailed information to evaluate hazards and perceive how the eruption is evolving at Kīlauea’s summit, all of that are shared with the Nationwide Park Service and emergency managers. Entry to this hazardous space is by permission from, and in coordination with, Hawai‘i Volcanoes Nationwide Park.
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Uncrewed plane techniques (UAS) flights on October 5, 2022, allowed for aerial visible and thermal imagery to be collected of Halema‘uma‘u crater on the summit of Kīlauea. The energetic lake floor is restricted to the western portion of the crater. The size of the thermal map ranges from blue to crimson, with blue colours indicative of cooler temperatures and crimson colours indicative of hotter temperatures. USGS has particular use permits from the Nationwide Park Service to conduct official UAS missions as a part of HVO’s mission to watch energetic volcanoes in Hawaii, assess their hazards, subject warnings, and advance scientific understanding to scale back impacts of volcanic eruptions.
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Uncrewed plane techniques (UAS) flights on October 5, 2022, allowed for aerial visible and thermal imagery to be collected of Halema‘uma‘u crater on the summit of Kīlauea. The energetic lake floor is restricted to the western portion of the crater. The size of the thermal map ranges from blue to crimson, with blue colours indicative of cooler temperatures and crimson colours indicative of hotter temperatures. USGS has particular use permits from the Nationwide Park Service to conduct official UAS missions as a part of HVO’s mission to watch energetic volcanoes in Hawaii, assess their hazards, subject warnings, and advance scientific understanding to scale back impacts of volcanic eruptions.
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This reference map depicts the continuing Kīlauea summit eruption on October 7, 2022. One eruptive vent (orange) is energetic inside Halema‘uma‘u, on the western facet of the crater ground. An adjoining pond (purple) is feeding lava to a bigger lake (crimson) by way of a crusted-over tube. The eruption statistics supplied listed below are present as of the final HVO overflight on October 5, 2022. Citizen scientists could discover that the eruptive options and statistics supplied listed below are largely unchanged from the final reference map on September 13, 2022. It is because a magmatic intrusion under Halema‘uma‘u on September 20, 2022, triggered some lava to empty from under the crater ground. Within the time since, lava has refilled to about the identical degree as earlier than, and there have been no additional ooze-outs to develop the footprint of lava flows from this eruption. Lava is presently seen from three public customer overlooks in Hawai‘i Volcanoes Nationwide Park: Keanakāko‘i Overlook and Kūpina‘i Pali (Waldron Ledge) can see the eruptive vent and lava lake, whereas Kīlauea Overlook can often see lava ooze-outs within the southeast a part of the crater. Go to the park eruption web page for more information: https://www.nps.gov/havo/study/nature/september-2021-eruption.htm.
October 6, 2022
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View of over half of the crater ground and energetic lava lake (heart proper) inside Halema‘uma‘u on the summit of Kīlauea on October 5, 2022. On this view wanting east, all however the southwest portion of Halema‘uma‘u’s crater ground is seen. USGS photograph by N. Deligne.
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This photograph reveals a Unoccupied Plane System (UAS) unit staged for take-off on October 5, 2022. Information from this flight will probably be used to assemble an up to date excessive decision map of Halema‘uma‘u on the summit of Kīlauea. By evaluating these detailed topographic maps constructed from routine helicopter and UAS overflights a, the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory is ready to monitor the effusion fee of lava into Halema‘uma‘u. Between September 12 and October 5, 2022, there was a web lower within the quantity inside Halema‘uma‘u, possible as a result of lake draining and a close-by intrusion on September 20, 2022.
USGS has particular use permits from the Nationwide Park Service to conduct official UAS missions as a part of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory’s mission to watch energetic volcanoes in Hawaii, assess their hazards, subject warnings, and advance scientific understanding to scale back impacts of volcanic eruptions. Launching, touchdown, or working an unmanned plane from or on lands and waters administered by the Nationwide Park Service throughout the boundaries of Hawaii Volcanoes Nationwide Park is prohibited beneath 36 CFR Closures & Public Use. USGS photograph by N. Deligne.
The eruption continues inside Halema‘uma‘u on the summit of Kīlauea. This telephoto, wanting east from the rim of Halema‘uma‘u, reveals the energetic lava lake (heart), with energetic lava ponds to the southeast (higher proper) and west (decrease heart). The silvery floor of those three options is the energetic lava. The western vent complicated is seen via the fuel within the backside heart of the photograph. USGS photograph by N. Deligne.
