First time since 1974, Kilauea region volcano in Hawaii erupts
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Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted to life early Monday morning with lava oozing out of the ground and causing the sky to glow eerily orange.
The eruption began around 12:30 a.m. HST on Monday, June 3, in a region that hasn’t erupted since December of 1974. The eruption nearly 50 years ago was short-lived, only lasting around six hours.
“At this time, it is not possible to say how long the eruption will last,” the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) said in a statement on Monday. The agency also upgraded the volcano alert level from a watch to a warning.
Additionally, there have been 92 earthquakes of at least magnitude 2.5 around the Big Island of Hawaii from Sunday morning through Monday morning, according to the USGS.