Horrible After shaken by 4.0 quake, awful explosion Kīlauea volcano spews scary hot ash and lava
The eruption of lava from the west vent within Halemaʻumaʻu crater at the summit of Kīlauea resumed on Sunday evening and continues this morning. The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory says that at approximately 9:30 p.m. HST on January 30, lava began to overflow the west vent cone to the northwest.
The eruption resumed prior to the occurrence of a Magnitude-4.0 earthquake under the south part of Hawai‘i island early Monday morning. “The earthquake had no apparent effect on Kīlauea or Mauna Loa volcanoes,” said HVO Scientist-in-Charge Ken Hon.
