# For volcano watchers - maybe you'll get lucky! {Kilauea may be erupting} **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 5, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665 "2023-09-05T20:52:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 36
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/701 "2026-09-24T20:53:59Z")
It’s been on and off all day. Usually for about ten to fifteen minutes at a time. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/702 "2026-09-24T22:42:19Z")
Yep. Just smoking now. V1 cam seems to be the only one aimed at where the action is. Even when there isn’t any. 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/703 "2026-09-25T17:43:38Z")
Nice flow showing on V3 atm… ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/704 "2026-09-25T20:32:27Z")
Done now. Has been for a couple hours now. Again. Sigh. Interesting. If you rewind V1 all the way back, that’s only 3 hours ago. If you rewind V3 back, that’s 12 hours ago. In any case, at about 0740HT, so still visible near the beginning of V1 for a few more minutes at least, you can see the flow @pjd was speaking of. And also see it on V3 at the same time. Which helped me to understand the spatial relationship between the two POVs. They re-aimed V3 awhile ago to account for the new gas vents, and in the absence of eruptions I was struggling to align my mental model with their revised reality. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2026, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/705 "2026-09-27T12:50:57Z")
As of now = 0845 ET / 0245 HT it seems there was brief spewing back starting around 0200 HT for 15-20 minutes and there’s now some gas jetting with little ejecta being blasted out. So starting about 45 minutes ago as I write. The view during the event is real variable. V3 probably had the best POV but there was a lot of obscuring smoke & gas. Sometimes the camera sees only blackness, then a few seconds later there’s vividly glowing lava. From V1’s POV there was almost no obscuration, but the lava was mostly coming out the back side of the spatter cone and flowing away from us. The small good news is that since it ended so recently, it’ll be rewindable for most of Sunday daytime for us in the CONUS. And both cams now have a 12-hour history; I don’t know how the V1 cam ended up with only a 3h history a couple days ago. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/706 "2026-09-29T20:59:17Z")
There should be a live volcano cam in this thread every five posts. I hate scrolling back looking for one. Here’s one now: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/dR6P_3M3nT0/maxresdefault.jpg "Mauna Loa Eruption, HI - USGS live stream") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR6P_3M3nT0) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2026, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/707 "2026-09-29T21:59:50Z")
Nope. That’s not live; it’s years old about a different volcano altogether. We expect folks to have the Kileaua live cam urls saved. There’s no point in posting a live cam url here when it’ll be displayed here for decades but only has something interesting to watch within a couple hours of when it was posted. This thread is about realtime comments on what that one volcano is doing as we’re posting. See **[https://youtube.com/@usgs](https://youtube.com/@usgs)** for all the really live cams, not year old vids. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665.md?page=35)