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Kilauea erupts for 55th time since 2024 after rare pause

The eruption follows a rare two-month pause, and thermal imagery shows glowing lava flows moving across the crater over several days; the volcano appears to be on a schedule.

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Photo: USGS/K. Lynn · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

Footage: JPSS imagery: CSU/CIRA & NOAA/NESDIS · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentKilauea is back in action with its fifty-fifth eruption since twenty twenty-four, ending a rare two-month break, according to FOX Weather.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorTwo months off, and now it's back at work.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentRoll it. This is thermal imagery, days of lava in six seconds, and look at the bright green and yellow glow of that flow.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt spreads, it shifts, it keeps glowing. It's hustling.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWatch this, the heat pattern changes right there as the lava moves. That's the volcano rushing to finish before the loop restarts.

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorRun it back.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBut you just said you weren't interested.

  8. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorViral Score: eight out of ten, because after fifty-five eruptions the loop is the only thing in Hawaii that finishes on time.

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