#2018

5 years ago on Big Island: ‘Eruption in Leilani, no joke. Lava is coming out right now.’

Exactly five years ago, Kīlauea began to spew lava that would prove to be the most destructive eruption in Hawai‘i in two centuries.

Erupting volcanoes on Big Island spark vortices nicknamed ‘lava devils’

Images captured last week of swirling clouds near the front of the lava flow from fissure 3 on Mauna Loa while it was still active were vortices similar to dust devils.