The effusive activity is confined within the Halema’uma’u crater.
The vast area of the crater floor is being covered by lava flow field with slabs of dark, solidified crust that have continued to shift on the lava field surface, accompanied by typical bright orange lava glow where several weak lava spattering is seen between them.
The HVO observatory doesn’t expect the eruption to migrate elsewhere out of the summit area.
The alert status is being lowered from „Warning“ to „Watch“ as the effusion rate has been declining over the past hours and the Aviation Color Code from „Red“ to „Orange“ because there is currently no threat of significant volcanic ash emission into the atmosphere outside of the hazardous closed area within Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park.
Source: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory volcano activity update 7 January 2023
