A glow was detected in webcam images from Kilauea’s summit early in the morning, indicating that an eruption was occurring within the Halemaumau crater in the summit caldera, the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said.
Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano, in its first eruption in nearly a year, was filling the crater at its summit with lava and clouding the skies with volcanic smog.