The activity beneath the volcano’s summit has been picking up and energizing over the past hours and is still continuing.
The summit area is being pressurized. The elevated seismic activity is confined to the summit region only, no unusual activity has been detected in the Southwest Rift Zone.
Earthquakes have been more frequent under the caldera in the south early this morning but have fluctuated in intensity throughout the day and remain high in general.
Since 03:00 AMP local time, the number of quakes has been varying between 25-40/hour at a 1.5-3 km depth. Quakes have shifted in clusters between the area just south of Halema’uma’u and the region southwest of the outer caldera boundary.
In total, more than 500 earthquakes have been located in the region since midnight, with magnitudes ranging between M „Current monitoring data show no indication that an eruption associated with this activity could occur far from Halemaʻumaʻu or the nearby area just to the south. Current wind conditions are weak and out of the south, so strong degassing could impact areas of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park and surrounding communities if an eruption does occur in the summit region.“
The webcam live stream camera pointing at the Kilauea summit.