Hawaii's Kilauea volcano just produced a strong lava fountaining episode, sending hundreds of tons of molten rock every second to heights of up to 800 feet into the air! This occurred as part of Kilauea's now 44th episode of summit lava fountaining since December 2024, leading to the temporary closure of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and parts of Route 11. Larger than basketball sized tephra fell in at least one spot, and tephra during the 8.5 hour long event drifted to the northeast. Thumbnail Photo Credit: Frame grab from a video by M. Patrick, L. Gallant, and D. Downs, U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Public Domain, https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/april-9-2026-video-episode-44-lava-fountaining-summit-kilauea. This image was overlaid with text, and then overlaid with GeologyHub made graphics (the image border & the GeologyHub logo). If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: http://patreon.com/geologyhub) (YouTube membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeGh5VML5XPr5jYnzh3J6g/join) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: http://prospectingarizona.etsy.com) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: http://geologyhub.etsy.com) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under "fair use". If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at [email protected] and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video's thumbnail image (and this list does not include every license used in this video and/or thumbnail image): Public Domain: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/ Sources/Citations: [1] U.S. Geological Survey [2] Hawaiian Volcano Observatory 0:00 Kilauea Erupts 0:46 Tepha Fall 2:05 Episode Timeline 3:30 Hydrogen Gas 3:48 Tying a Record 4:25 Next Eruptive Episode