{"id":39374,"date":"2025-03-06T02:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=39374"},"modified":"2025-03-06T04:27:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T10:27:22","slug":"lava-fountain-height-soars-in-latest-episode-of-hawaii-volcano-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=39374","title":{"rendered":"Lava fountain height soars in latest episode of Hawaii volcano eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">HONOLULU &#8212;&nbsp;Lava fountains from a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/kilauea\">Hawaii volcano<\/a>&nbsp;reached heights of 600 feet (180 meters) during the latest episode of an eruption that has been pausing and resuming for several months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Fountains dropped in height 250 feet (80 meters) to 300 feet (90 meters) on Tuesday night, according to the Hawaii Volcano Observatory. On Wednesday morning, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/usgs\/live\">webcam<\/a>&nbsp;still showed tall bursts of fiery red lava and billowing smoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hawaii-where-is-volcano-kilauea-erupting-7fc64ea9551e6cfe8d18e31bf5c1ca16\">eruption began Dec. 23<\/a>&nbsp;in a crater at the summit of Kilauea, one of the world\u2019s most active volcanoes, in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Tuesday marked the eruption&#8217;s 12th episode. What began in the morning with sporadic, small flows became continuous fountaining in the afternoon, the observatory said. Lava fountains reached 150 to 165 feet (45 to 60 meters) and then later grew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">No residential areas have been threatened by the eruption.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hawaii-volcano-lava-fountain-kilauea-3f56fa6fa62e3b3d9dabcc14bb56be15\">People have been flocking<\/a>&nbsp;to overlook sites inside the park for views of the fiery show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The length of time for each fountaining episode has varied from several hours to several days. Episodes have been separated by pauses lasting from less than 24 hours to 12 days, according to the observatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/lava-fountain-height-soars-latest-episode-hawaii-volcano-119483296\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU &#8212;&nbsp;Lava fountains from a&nbsp;Hawaii volcano&nbsp;reached heights of 600 feet (180 meters) during the latest episode of an eruption that has been pausing and resuming for several months. Fountains dropped in height 250 feet (80 meters) to 300 feet (90 meters) on Tuesday night, according to the Hawaii Volcano Observatory. On Wednesday morning, a&nbsp;webcam&nbsp;still showed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[23310,2721,7265],"class_list":["post-39374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-feet","tag-hawaii","tag-volcano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39376,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39374\/revisions\/39376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}