Lava shoots into the night sky from active fissures on the lower east rift of the Kilauea volcano, Tuesday, May 15, 2018, near Pahoa, Hawaii. (Caleb Jones/Associated Press)PAHO, Hawaii — A geophysicist says a plume that’s rising from the Kilauea volcano summit on Hawaii’s Big Island does not contain as much ash as it did on Tuesday. Because there’s little wind, the plume for the most part is rising vertically over the summit. USGS scientists will not monitor the plume from a summit observatory because of fears of falling ash. The volcano has been spewing lava from fissures that opened up on its flanks for two weeks.

Source: Washington Post May 16, 2018 18:07 UTC