USGS webcam image taken after the pause in the Kilauea summit eruption.

UPDATE – (2 p.m.) – The Kīlauea summit eruption paused at 12:36 p.m. HST on January 25, 2025, when fountain-fed lava flows stopped erupting out of the north vent. Scientists say the latest eruptive event, known as Episode 6, lasted for just over 13 hours.  

(BIVN) – Kīlauea is erupting. The USGS Volcano Alert Level is WATCH.

The sixth episode of the current summit eruption began late Friday night, when fountains emerged from the north vent within Halemaʻmaʻu crater at 11:28 p.m. HST.

The latest activity ends the pause that began on Thursday January 23, 2025 at 4:30 a.m. HST.

From the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory in a status report filed just after midnight:

Episode 6 was preceded by small, sporadic spatter fountains that began at approximately 6 p.m. and continued to increase in intensity until 11:15 p.m., when sustained fountaining began. Episode 6 began when fountain-fed lava flows began erupting onto the floor of Halemaʻumaʻu crater at 11:28 p.m. Current activity includes small dome fountains 15 feet (5 meters) high feeding a short lava flow from the north vent.

Inflationary tilt at the summit recovered the 2.5 microradian tilt loss during episode 5 by 2:00 p.m. HST on January 24th and had increased another 0.5 microradians just before the eruption restarted. The tiltmeter at Uēkahuna switched to deflation and seismic tremor both began increasing at about 11:25 p.m. just before lava flows began erupting onto the crater floor.

USGS webcam image shows Episode 6 of the Kilauea summit eruption.

Currently light winds are blowing at less than 10 mph out of the north-northeast sending the gas plume to the south into the Kaʻū Desert.

Each episode of lava fountaining since December 23, 2024, has continued for 14 hours to 8 days and episodes have been separated by pauses in eruptive activity lasting a less than 24 hours to 12 days.

HVO continues to closely monitor Kīlauea and will issue an eruption update tomorrow morning unless there are significant changes before then. HVO remains in close contact with Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park and the Hawai‘i County Civil Defense Agency.