September 2024 Kilauea Volcano Eruption 2024. This is the first eruption on kīlauea’s middle east rift zone since 2018 and it. Kīlauea volcano's middle east rift zone eruption resumed late on september 16, 2024, and it continues this morning within nāpau crater in hawaiʻi volcanoes national.

Usgs hawaiian volcano observatory geologists conducted a reconnaissance overflight of the eruption near nāpau crater on the middle east rift zone of kīlauea. This is the first eruption on kilauea’s middle east rift zone (merz).