In only 6 years, a section of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has rapidly become a little more than 1,600 feet or 488 meters taller than it was at the start of this timespan. What I am referring to is a section of Kilauea's summit caldera, which has filled in by more than 500 million cubic meters of fresh lava since December 2020. Today's video will discuss this relatively rapid change, and give some estimates as to when Kilauea's 2018 caldera might be completely infilled by. Thumbnail Photo Credit: M. Patrick, U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Public Domain, https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/march-10-2026-kilauea-episode-43-dual-lava-fountains. 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 [3] Poland, M.P., Miklius, A., and Montgomery-Brown, E.K., 2014, Magma supply, storage, and transport at shield-stage Hawaiian volcanoes: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1801, 56 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/pp18015. [4] C. A. Neal et al. ,The 2018 rift eruption and summit collapse of Kīlauea Volcano.Science363,367-374(2019).DOI:10.1126/science.aav7046 [5] C. A. Neal et al., Science 10.1126/science.aav7046 (2018). [6] Lundgren, P. R., Bagnardi, M., & Dietterich, H. (2019). Topographic changes during the 2018 Kīlauea eruption from single-pass airborne InSAR. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 9554–9562. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083501 0:00 Risen by 1,600 Feet 1:06 My Forecast 2:08 2018 Caldera Collapse 2:53 Timelapse 4:12 Data Analysis