PHOTO BY M. ZOELLER / COURTESY USGS A Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologist is silhouetted by the illuminated gas plume emanating from Halemaumau crater on Wednesday during the fifth episode of ...

(ABC 6 News) — In Hawaii, the world’s most active volcano resumed its latest eruption on Wednesday night. This is the fifth episode from the Kilauea volcano since it started to erupt just before ...

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HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK (HawaiiNewsNow) - Kilauea put on a brief spectacular show for the fifth time since it’s first episode last December. It started up again at 3 p.m. Wednesday but this ...

The world’s most active volcano is at it again as scientists with the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said Kilauea resumed its eruption Wednesday, marking the fifth such episode since it began back in ...