Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano destroys camera capturing live video of 38th eruption of past year
The story is still unfolding. On December 6, at about 8:45 a.m. local time, Kīlauea returned to life, spewing lava for roughly twelve hours, as reported by the US Geological Survey. It’s the volcano’s thirty‑eighth eruption since the start of the current activity, and the pattern fits its recent history: since the first episode on December 23, 2024, each outburst tends to last less than a day, with quiet periods in between that can stretch into several days. The previous event—Kīlauea’s thirty‑seventh—was longer than nine hours and trailed a magnitude 4.6 quake.
This latest display sent the plume soaring between 1,000 and 1,200 feet, captured from many angles by the USGS. A live camera stationed on the south rim of Halema‘uma‘u crater gave viewers a close‑up portrait of molten lava hurled into the air; the fiery burst eventually enveloped and destroyed the camera itself.
> “In case you ever wondered what it would be liked to be engulfed in a lava fountain…
> This video was recorded by the V3 camera, located on the south rim of Halema‘uma‘u crater at the summit of Kīlauea volcano on the Island of Hawai‘i. The camera, located in a hazardous closed…”
A second shot from the west side of the crater shows plumes of smoke and flowing lava, confirming that Kīlauea has reached its thirty‑eighth episode since last December.
As the film draws to a close, the footage switches through a range of colors before the camera is buried under tephra between 9:55 a.m. and 9:57 a.m., according to USGS telemetry.
With Kīlauea still in its active phase, further eruptions are likely to come.
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