By Michael Kuhne, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer
April 30,2015; 10:49PM,EDT
Visitors have been flocking to see the breathtaking spectacle, according to the Hawaii Tribune Herald.
Visitors to Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park can see the lake surface, and molten lava spattering above the vent rim for the first time since its formation, according to USGS.
Place
your cursor over the image to see the lava lake rise. Kīlauea Volcano's
summit lava lake, which was about 40 feet below the vent rim on April
25, overflowed for the first time at about 9:40 p.m., HST (Photos/USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory)The lava lake, which is located within the Overlook crater, one of Kilauea's two active vents, has risen about 25 meters (82 feet) since April 22. On Tuesday April 28, the lava lake overflowed the vent rim for the first time at about 9:40 p.m. HST, USGS reported.
As of noon on Wednesday, the lava lake had overflowed the vent rim several more times.
While the lava has fluctuated since the lake formed, for much of the past year, the level was approximately 30-60 meters below the vent rim.
It had risen to about three to four meters, or 10 feet, below the vent rim as of Tuesday, which was the highest level USGS has measured since the summit eruption began in March 2008, according to Babb.
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Place
your cursor over the image to see the lava lake rise. The Overlook
crater lava lake level was 55 m (180 ft) below the vent rim on March 18.
On April 26 the lava lake level had risen to 3 m (10 ft) below the vent
rim. (Photos/USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory)"Now that the lake has risen, it can be seen from park overlooks, such as the one at Jaggar Museum," Babb said.
"Overflow of lava will remain in Halema`uma`u Crater and will not pose a threat to people."
It is possible the lake will return to lower levels in the near future.
(Photo/USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory)"We identified paths of steepest descent for the lava flows on Kilauea's East Rift Zone, which helped us forecast where the active lava might go."
The summit lava lake is not connected to the East Rift Zone lava flow that moved toward Pahoa in 2014.
Lava flowed almost 14 miles toward the community of Pahoa, which is located in the Puna District on the Island of Hawaii.
(Photo/USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory)
A
rockfall from the wall of Halema'uma'u Crater impacted the lava lake
Tuesday, triggering an explosion of spatter and smaller
particles.(Photo/USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory)
(Photo/USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory)
(Photo/USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory)
(Photo/USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory)
(Photo/USGS Hawaii Volcano Observatory)
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