Waves of orange, glowing lava and smoky ash belched and sputtered Monday from the world’s largest active volcano in its first eruption in 38 years, and officials told people living on Hawaii’s Big Island to be ready in the event of a worst-case scenario.

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory — after the next projected lava fountaining episode of the ongoing episodic eruption at the summit, which will be Episode 44, sometime from April 6-14 — will change how it applies alert level and aviation color code to better convey hazards between and during eruptive episodes at Kīlauea summit.

Hawaii’s most active and popular volcano, Kilauea, is preparing to put on a show as geologists forecast the volcano’s 44th eruption in the coming days. The United States Geological Survey said that precursory eruption activity is occurring as the active volcano prepares to erupt – one of Earth’s most captivating natural spectacles.

Revising Kilauea’s Alert Level and Aviation Color Code notifications – Features, Volcano Update | West Hawaii Today

One of the world’s most active volcanoes, Kilauea in Hawaii, has erupted again, sending dramatic fountains of lava high into the air at 500 feet

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Impressive images released by French authorities showed the moment lava from an erupting volcano on Reunion Island flowed into the sea on Monday, March 16. Video captured aboard a ...