Lava breakouts from Kilauea Volcano continued to be active this week away from the stalled flow front.
The inactive extreme tip of the June 27 lava flow on Thursday remained about 550 yards from Highway 130 in the area west of the Pahoa fire and police stations, according to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
The breakout along the north margin of the stalled flow tip is still active but sluggish, and has not advanced since Monday. The leading edge of that flow is about a mile from Highway 130.
Activity continues but is diminishing along the new breakout that started from the upper June 27 tube on the north flank of Puu Oo.
While the June 27 flow continues to widen, no advancement has been recorded since Monday, the observatory said.
The lobe on the south side of the flow, about a half-mile upslope of Malama Market, is no longer advancing, but hosts a few active breakouts several hundred meters upslope of the stalled front.
Scattered activity also continues west of Kaohe Homesteads in the same areas that have been active for about the last month, as well as in a slightly downslope area. Observers on a Civil Defense overflight Thursday morning reported no change in any of the down-slope areas.
Minor lava flows within the crater of Puu Oo have also been observed during the past 24 hours, the observatory said.
At the Kilauea summit, instruments began recording inflationary activity, associated with accumulating lava, beginning at about 9 a.m. Wednesday, and the lava lake has risen accordingly. A swarm of long-period earthquakes within Kilauea Caldera has mostly ceased since the start of the inflation.
Quakes of magnitude 2.6 and 2.9 struck within 45 minutes of each other late Wednesday in an area 16 miles east of Honaunau-Napoopoo, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
