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Kilauea Glows

Posted: March 03, 2011 | posted by: Stephen Geiger!

March 1, 2011 - 6:00 am - Jaggar Museum Overlook

Halema`uma`u at Dawn

The lava lake in the vent in Halema`uma`u crater is currently around 260 feet below the crater floor presenting a spectacular show after dark.

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Kilauea Visitor Center Display Gets Sound

Posted: February 28, 2011 | posted by: admin-commonspot!

Informative and educational talks with audio and open captioning are now being presented at the Kilauea Visitor Center.

The slightly darker ceiling tile at the top center of the photo is actually an amplified speaker array. It uses digital signal proccessing to focus the sound downward so that even when the Visitor Center is busy and noisy, the audio can still be heard below.

Visitor Center Display

Currently, the following six videos are being presented:

1. Forest Birds Monitoring
2. Seismicity of Kilauea
3. Invasive Species
4. Invasive Plants Monitoring
5. Deformation of Kilauea
6.

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Did You Know?

Glowing, reddish-orange lava flowing on the surface at Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park

Kilauea Volcano has erupted lava almost continuously from its east rift zone since 1983. These lava flows have added about 500 acres of new land to the southern shore of Kilauea and covered 8.7 miles (14 km) of highway with lava as deep as 115 feet (35 m). More...