Catalog record
These fields are copied from the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program Holocene volcano snapshot stored on this site. The file was fetched 2026-09-19T12:21:44Z. It is a location catalog, not a live alert.
- Catalog name
- Kilauea
- GVP number
- 332010
- Country
- United States
- Type
- Shield
- Elevation
- 1,222 m
- Region
- Eastern Pacific Volcanic Regions
- Subregion
- Hawaiian-Emperor Hotspot Volcano Group
- Tectonic setting
- Intraplate / Oceanic crust (< 15 km)
- Last-eruption year
- 2026
- Evidence code
- Eruption Observed
- Latitude, longitude
- 19.421, -155.287
Elevation rank in the Hawaiian-Emperor Hotspot Volcano Group in this snapshot: 5 of 6. Rank is by the listed elevation only. It is not a hazard ranking.
How to read the last-eruption year
The year is a catalog field. A recent year means the snapshot recorded activity in that year. It is not an alert level, a size, or a statement about what happens next. Evidence codes in this file include “Eruption Observed” and “Eruption Dated.” Those are Smithsonian categories for how the eruption year was established, not a forecast flag.
Setting
The catalog tectonic code for Kīlauea is intraplate oceanic crust, in the Hawaiian-Emperor hotspot group. That is a different setting from the subduction arcs around the Pacific. The latitude and longitude fall in none of the corridor rectangles documented on the About page.
USGS notes that most eruptions in Hawaiʻi are VEI 0, or VEI 1 when there is a small explosive component such as lava fountaining or minor ash. The snapshot’s last-eruption year is 2026 because the file fetched on 19 September 2026 records a year of activity. It does not publish an aviation color code or an alert level.
Outside every documented Ring of Fire rectangle on this site. The rectangles are documented on the About page. They are a lat/lon belt, not an official plate polygon.
Other volcanoes in this subregion
Highest listed elevations in the Hawaiian-Emperor Hotspot Volcano Group in this snapshot, excluding this volcano when it is already first:
- Mauna Kea, 4,205 m, last-eruption year 2460 BCE.
- Mauna Loa, 4,170 m, last-eruption year 2022.
- Haleakala, 3,053 m, last-eruption year 1750.
Distance to published great-earthquake epicenters
The distances below use this volcano’s catalog coordinates and epicenters from the USGS list of the 20 largest earthquakes since 1900. They are spherical distances to points, not distances to a fault trace, and not a hazard score.
- 1946 M8.6 Unimak Island, Alaska (1946-04-01 12:29 UTC) — 3,843 km from the catalog point.
- 1957 M8.6 Andreanof Islands, Aleutians (1957-03-09 14:23 UTC) — 3,985 km from the catalog point.
- 1965 M8.7 Rat Islands, Aleutians (1965-02-04 05:01 UTC) — 4,206 km from the catalog point.
You can repeat the measurement for any coordinates on the distance to fault references tool.
What this page will not tell you
It will not tell you the next eruption time, the next earthquake on the neighboring trench, or an evacuation route. For U.S. volcano notices, use the USGS Volcano Hazards Program. For earthquakes, use the USGS event pages linked from Live Quakes. This site’s volcano map only draws the Holocene catalog.