This is the moment lava was captured spilling from a volcano in Hawaii and flowing down a mountain.

Mount Kilauea is one of the most active volcanoes in the world and has been erupting in regular intervals since last year.

According to the United States Geological Survey, it is the 37th time it has erupted since December 2024.

The shield volcano, located on Hawaii’s Big Island, the largest of the Hawaiian archipelago and about 200 miles south of the state’s largest city, Honolulu.

Kilauea has erupted regularly for around the past 40 years. 

It is one of six active volcanoes on the Hawaiian Islands, alongside Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world.

Part of Kilauea overlaps with the eastern side of the 14,000-foot-tall volcano. 

In January, researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa discovered that these two volcanoes share a magma source within Hawaii’s hotspot, also known as the mantle plume.

Mount Kilauea is one of the most active volcanoes in the world and has been erupting regularly for the last year

Kilauea is one of the most active volcanoes on Earth, and the most active among the five volcanoes that together form the Big Island

They also have their own magma sources, but magma from the shared portion of the mantle plume can travel to either Kilauea or Mauna Loa.

According to native Hawaiian tradition, the crater is the home to the volcano goddess Pele. 

Kilauea is between 210,000 and 280,000 years old, but did not grow above sea level until roughly 100,000 years ago.

The longest and most destructive recorded eruption persisted from January 1983 to April 2018 and caused significant property damage, including the destruction of two towns in 1990 and a renowned black sand beach.