Violent eruptions have started up again in Hawaii, with fountains of lava shooting hundreds of feet into the air and toxic gas belching from the crater.

M. PATRICK / U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Lava spewed out of the northern vent at Kilauea’s summit Tuesday morning. M. PATRICK / U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Lava spewed out of the northern vent at Kilauea’s ...

Lava fountains initially erupted with dramatic intensity, followed by a phenomenon called "drainback," where lava flows back into ... driving these stop-and-start patterns. Dense, gas-poor lava ...

marking the end of the seventh lava flow episode in the on-again, off-again summit eruption that started Dec. 23. According to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, the eruption shut down quickly ...

HVO geologists said the current eruption has had three separate episodes: >> Dec. 23: 2:20 a.m. to 4 p.m., or over 14 hours of lava flow. >> Dec. 24: 8 a.m. to Dec. 25 at 11 a.m. for 15 hours of ...

According to an update from the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO), the eruption of Kilauea within Kaluapele (summit caldera) resumed just after 9 a.m. local time Wednesday when a small lava flow ...