Kīlauea Summit — YouTube Livestreams
Three cameras (V1, V2, V3) livestream 24/7 to YouTube. During fountaining episodes, these are the best seats in the house. Click to watch live.
Kīlauea Summit Webcams — Latest Images
Live snapshots updated every few minutes. Images from USGS/HVO — public domain. Click any image for the 24-hour animated GIF.
Mauna Loa Webcams
Recent Seismicity — Island of Hawai'i
Earthquakes within 100 km of Kīlauea summit, from the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program. Pick a region or time window; the numbers, map and table all follow. Deep quakes under Pāhala are a long-running swarm about 30 km down and are not tied to the summit eruption.
Live Monitoring Data
This is the war room. The plots below are drawn by USGS from live instruments on the volcano and refresh on their own; the same feeds HVO scientists watch. Tilt is the heartbeat: learn to read the sawtooth and you can see magma filling and draining the summit.
The UWD tiltmeter near Uēkahuna on the caldera rim is your best friend. It measures ground tilt in microradians (μrad) — one microradian is like tilting a kilometer-long beam by one millimeter. Here's what to watch for:
The full-eruption plot shows every episode since December 2024, each ramp and cliff one pause-and-fountain cycle. As pauses lengthened from days to weeks, the ramps grew taller. HVO has used the inflation rate and accumulated tilt to forecast windows for the next episode.
The pattern can break, and the plots show it when it does. After Episode 54 (Aug 25, 2026) the pause ran past every earlier one; in mid-September six new vents erupted lava flows without fountaining; and on the evening of September 30 the summit tiltmeters recorded rapid changes that HVO read as an east–west crack filling with magma under Halemaʻumaʻu, with a swarm of shallow earthquakes. Watch the week and month tilt plots for what comes next.
Tilt Right Now
Earthquakes in Depth
Crater Floor, Gas and Ground Motion
Mauna Loa — Recharging Quietly
HVO Observatory Messages — Real-Time Play-by-Play
These short messages from HVO scientists are posted in real time during precursory activity and active episodes. This is the feed to watch when things are heating up.
Air Quality & Vog Tracking
Hawaiian Volcano Profiles
Kīlauea Episodic Fountaining Log
Since December 23, 2024, Kīlauea has erupted in a distinctive episodic pattern — short-lived lava fountaining from two vents in Halema'uma'u, separated by inflationary pauses. This style was last seen in the 1980s.