According to a news release, the cones are made when hot lava splatters back onto the Earth's surface during a volcanic ...

One of the world’s most active volcanoes, located in Kilauea, Hawaii, erupted for the seventh time since December on Monday evening, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

This amazing time-lapse video shows the collapse of the Pu'u 'O 'o crater floor, a cinder/spatter cone in the eastern rift zone of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. Video courtesy of U.S. Geological ...

Volcanic cones are of different types, depending upon the nature and size of the fragments ejected during the eruption. Types of volcanic cones include stratocones, spatter cones, tuff cones, and ...

This rugged landscape features cinder cones, spatter cones and lava tube caves formed from volcanic activity in the Great Rift, a series of cracks in the Earth that runs over a stretch of 52 miles. In ...

Kīlauea volcano erupts in in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park on Jan. 22, 2025. "Weak, intermittent spatter" was observed earlier in the day, but it was not until 2:57 p.m. that "small spatter ...

Episode 8 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption at Kīlauea began at 9:52 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025 and is currently ...

The eruption began Dec. 23 in a crater at the summit of Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes. This marks the eruption’s eighth episode. Small, sporadic spatter fountains began ...

Update at 9:52 p.m. Jan. 27: A new episode of eruptive activity is underway in the summit caldera of Kīlauea volcano on the Big Island. Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reports that Episode 7 of the ...