Images

Aerial view looking south toward a lava flow advancing through forest along the Roger James fishing access road. The recently active Puhi O Kalaikini delta is to the left. The current ocean entry at Ki is at upper right.

Aerial view of the Ki ocean entry with several narrow streams of lava pouring into the ocean.

View of the active lava lake at Halema‘uma‘u. The lava upwells at the upper right corner of the lake (north) and sinks back down at lower left (south) where weak spattering is occurring.

Aerial view down into the vent in Halema‘uma‘u with the active lava lake at the bottom. Lava is upwelling at the upper right side of the lake (north) and downwelling at lower left (south).

Viewing looking west at Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō. The summit gas plume is in the distance at upper right.

View looking north at the spatter cone on the northwest side of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater floor. The cone is about 6 m (20 ft) high.

View looking southeast across the eastern half of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater and showing the spatter cone on the northeast side of the crater and the fuming opening in the east wall.

View of the spatter cone on the northeast side of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater floor.

View of the fuming opening in the east wall of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater with incandescent holes on its rim.

View looking north across new and active flows, light gray in color, on the coastal plain west of Kalapana Gardens subdivision.

View looking southeast at new flows, light gray in color, just west of Kalapana Gardens subdivision.

Overflows from the lava pond in Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō have nearly leveled the crater floor with the perched pond. The floor of the crater is now 39 m (128 ft) below the east rim.

Numerous spattering sources were active on the east end of the pond, causing pond level fluctuations throughout the day.

A wide shot of the current flow field, from the coastal plain up to the TEB vent. The current flow is still split into an eastern and western lobe on the coastal plain, entering the ocean along the eastern lobe (lower right). The area is scattered with small breakouts, several of which show up nicely in light grey.

A close-up view of the small ocean entry from the eastern branch of lava flows near Kalapana.

Breakouts remain active near Kalapana, with vigorous activity situated approximately 630 meters (0.4 miles) west of the end of the Kalapana access road. This breakout, just south of a partially burned kipuka, was cascading into a small depression on the flow field.

Looking down into the vent cavity of the Halema‘uma‘u Overlook vent. The black ring on the walls surrounding the lava pond is a high lava mark, outlining the height the lava rose during a recent rise/fall cycle.

A new spattering vent formed on the south side of the TEB shield, just before daybreak on February 4.

Spatter being ejected from the newly formed vent.

A fortuitous shot of a lava blob being thrown from the vent.

Earlier this week, lava began erupting from a vent on the floor of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater. The mound on the right side of the photo is the vent producing lava flows, slowly filling the east side of the crater.