Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st display of molten rock since December for one of the world's most active volcanoes, per the AP. The north vent at the summit crater began continuously sputtering in the morning, and then lava overflowed a few hours later. The vent started shooting lava fountains in the afternoon.
The eruption was contained within the summit crater, and no homes were threatened. A few lucky residents and visitors will have a front-row view at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. If the past is a guide, hundreds of thousands more will be watching popular livestreams made possible by three camera angles set up by the US Geological Survey. (See one here.) Kilauea is on Hawaii Island, the largest of the Hawaiian archipelago. It's about 200 miles south of the state's largest city, Honolulu, which is on Oahu.
Scientists don't know how the current eruption will end or how it may change. In 1983, magma built enough pressure that Kilauea opened a vent at a lower elevation and started continuously leaking lava from there rather than periodically shooting out of a higher elevation. The eruption continued in various forms for three decades and ended in 2018. Something similar could happen again. Or the current eruption could instead stop at the summit if its magma supply peters out.
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