Kilauea Volcano Eruption 2024 News 2024. Kīlauea volcano erupted briefly last night just west of nāpau crater on the middle east rift zone. A helicopter overflight on september 20, 2024, allowed for aerial visual and thermal imagery to be collected at the middle east rift zone eruption site on kīlauea.
Kīlauea volcano continues to erupt in hawai’i volcanoes national park near nāpau crater on the remote middle east rift zone. In december 2022, a team of scientists from aotearoa, new zealand teamed up with scientists from the usgs hawaiian volcano observatory (hvo) to carry out a small pilot study.