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UAS video of the 2018 summit eruption of Kīlauea Volcano—September 1-31, 2018

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2018-09-02
End Date
2018-09-05

Citation

DeSmither, L.G., and Diefenbach, A.K., 2021, Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS) video of the 2018 summit eruption of Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9MYKFWB.

Summary

This dataset contains Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS) footage from the 2018 summit collapse of Kīlauea Volcano, Island of Hawai‘i. The intrusion of magma into Kīlauea’s lower East Rift Zone triggered draining of the summit lava lake and magma withdrawal from the shallow reservoir. This resulted in 62 subsequent collapse events at the summit between May and early-August 2018. Each collapse event released energy equivalent to a magnitude-5.3 earthquake. The total collapse volume was about 0.8 km^3, with subsidence of more than 500 m in some places. There are 73 UAS videos in this publication, recorded from May 19 to September 5, which have been separated into subpages by month. Sub-pages for each month also contain a ReadMe text file [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Liliana G Desmither, Angie K Diefenbach
Metadata Contact :
Liliana G Desmither
Originator :
Liliana G Desmither, Angie K Diefenbach
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
Volcano Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Natural Hazards
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

Attached Files

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20180902_Summit_Mavic_02.mp4 157.08 MB video/mp4
20180905_Summit_M600_01.mp4 483.31 MB video/mp4
20180905_Summit_M600_02.mp4 377.92 MB video/mp4
20180905_Summit_M600_03.mp4 356.82 MB video/mp4
3.81 GB video/quicktime
ReadMe_September.txt 5.96 KB text/plain

Purpose

The videos were collected from various UAS platforms to support the USGS 2018 Kīlauea eruption response. The majority of the videos in this dataset were collected to aid in situational awareness, for scientists, emergency managers, and the National Park Service during an evolving volcanic crisis. Additional videos were collected during gas measurement and mapping flights.

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