Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, has been erupting on and off for nearly two months since it burst to life on Dec. 23. The eruption has been taking place at the the volcano’s summit crater inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. No residential areas have been threatened by lava.

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Timelapse footage captured the moment Kilauea volcano in Hawaii began erupting for the seventh time in just a few weeks. The eruption created glowing patterns as lava spread over the mountainside. Officials said the lava posed no threat posed to homes or infrastructures.

The Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is home to the summits of two of the world’s most active volcanoes: Kilauea and Mauna Loa.

Using a nearly 200-year record of lava chemistry from Kīlauea and Maunaloa, earth scientists from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and colleagues revealed that Hawaiʻi’s two most active volcanoes share a source of magma within the Hawaiian plume. Their discovery was published in the “ Journal of Petrology .”

A tall fountain of lava is spewing from a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island. A webcam on Tuesday shows vigorous streams of red lava in the latest episode of an eruption that has paused and resumed.

Livecam footage from Hawaii shows a fountain of lava shooting out of Kilauea Tuesday morning, as the volcano continues its weeks-long eruption.

Episode 9 of the Halema’uma’u eruption at the summit of Kīlauea began at 10:16 am HST today, Feb. 11, 2025). Lava is fountaining within north vent, feeding lava flows onto the crater floor within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.