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Kilauea erupts for the 55th time since 2024 after rare pause

The eruption ended a rare two-month pause at the Hawaii volcano, which has now erupted fifty-five times since twenty twenty-four; satellite thermal imagery shows the lava flowing.

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

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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHawaii's Kilauea erupted again this weekend, the fifty-fifth time since twenty twenty-four, after a rare two-month pause, FOX Weather reports.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorTwo months of rest and then right back to work. I respect a volcano with boundaries and a comeback.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentRoll it. This is the actual eruption, shot from space, so it looks like a weather map having a big day.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorLook at that bright green and yellow glow. The lava is spreading out across the crater and I am not emotional about it.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWatch this part. The blob shifts, and I am circling it with the telestrator like it is a game-winning drive.

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorRun it back.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYou just told me you weren't emotional about it.

  8. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFine, your budget hack is that I fill the tank at happy hour prices and the plover just stays put, free of charge.

  9. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorViral score, nine, for looking exactly like my phone's battery report.

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The story so far

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  6. Kilauea erupts for the 55th time since 2024 after rare pause (this story)

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