Removal of visitor and research buildings damaged in 2018 Kīlauea eruption begins

A demolition and construction project at the summit of Kīlauea is underway nearly six years after an eruption damaged research and visitor facilities. The landscape at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park and Kīlauea summit was forever changed in 2018 when magma drained from the chamber beneath Halema’uma’u crater. The caldera collapsed, triggering thousands of earthquakes and clouds of rock and ash.

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