Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts, shooting jets of lava into the sky

Lava continues to spew from one of the world’s most active volcanoes, days after the eruption of Kilauea on Hawaii’s Big Island began.

The eruption, which began on Monday, has stayed within the mountain’s summit caldera inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Live images broadcast online by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) showed a burst of lava spewing from the Halema’uma’u crater, on the northwest rim of the caldera, early on Wednesday.

The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said the eruption began just after 2am local time (12:00 GMT) on Monday.

“At 4.30am [14:30 GMT], lava fountains were observed with heights up to 80 meters [262 feet],” the agency said.