Halemaʻumaʻu eruption · episode 20 of 55
Kīlauea episode 20
Episode 20 of Kīlauea's Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began at 5:28 p.m. HST on May 6, 2025 and ended at 9:28 p.m. HST the same day. USGS gives the duration as 4 hours. HVO's Uēkahuna tiltmeter (UWD) recorded approximately 6 microradians of deflation during the episode. HVO notes: Precursory low-level activity began on May 5, 2025 - 10:48 a.m.; north and south vents active, north vent dominant.
Episode 20 at a glance
- Start (HST)
- May 6, 2025, 5:28 p.m.USGS timeline
- End (HST)
- May 6, 2025, 9:28 p.m.USGS timeline
- Duration
- 4 hoursUSGS timeline
- UWD tilt (deflation)
- approximately 6 microradiansHVO notice
- Max fountain height
- about 153 mUSGS timeline
- Lava erupted
- about 2.4 million m³USGS timeline
- Pause that followed
- 5 daysUSGS timeline
In HVO's words
The sentences these figures come from, quoted from USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory notices.
“The Uēkahuna tiltmeter (UWD) recorded approximately 6 microradians of deflationary tilt between the start and end of episode 20 fountaining.”
HVO notices about episode 20
Daily updates: USGS Kīlauea volcano updates. Full table: USGS Timeline of Eruptive Episodes.
Times are Hawaiʻi-Aleutian Standard Time (HST). Start and pause times, durations, fountain heights and lava volumes come from the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory's Timeline of Eruptive Episodes; tilt figures and episodes not yet in that table are quoted from HVO notices. USGS describes these as unreviewed, preliminary estimates that are subject to revision. Durations for episodes 17 and earlier may include precursory activity, and HVO rounds durations to the nearest hour, half-hour or day. A blank cell means HVO hasn't published that figure in a form we could read; we don't estimate it.
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