volcano Kilauea in Hawaii the eruption occurred today for the second time in several months, as announced by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

Lava erupts from Kilauea Crater, one of the most active volcanoes in the world. The USGS has raised its alert level from orange to red until it evaluates volcanic activity. “At the moment, activity is limited to the crater, the risks will be reassessed as the phenomenon develops,” he says.

⚡️ #NOW | Eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. pic.twitter.com/ZKrniShIBq

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The volcano is located along the southeast coast of the Big Island of Hawaii and is between 210,000 and 280,000 years old and rose above sea level about 100,000 years ago. Historically, it is the most active of the five volcanoes that together form the island of Hawaii. Kilauea is also one of the most active volcanoes on Earth, and the most recent and ongoing eruption today began on September 29, 2021, when several chambers began spewing lava at Halema Umau, a crater pit in the volcano’s summit caldera.

Kilauea is the second youngest product of the Hawaiian hotspot and the current igneous center of the Hawaiian-Imperial mountain range. Because it lacks topographical prominence and its activities historically overlapped with those of Mauna Loa, Kilauea was once considered a satellite of its much larger neighbor. Structurally, Kilauea has a large, relatively recent summit caldera and two active fault zones, one extending 125 km to the east and the other 35 km to the west, as an active fault of unknown depth moving vertically at an average of 2 to 20 mm per year. .