Overall Green alert Volcanic eruption for Kilauea
in United States

Event summary

GREEN alert: The Kilauea Volcanic eruption is unlikely to require external humanitarian assistance based on the exposed population and coping capacity.

GDACS ID VO 1000032
Name: Kilauea
Lat/Lon: 19.421 , -155.287
Event Date: 30 Sep 2021 UTC
Exposed Population 30km: About 3000 people within 30km
Exposed Population 100km: About 190000 people within 100km
Max Volc. Explosivity Index VEI: 4
Population Exposure Index PEI: 3
Inserted at: 30 Sep 2021 05:54 UTC

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Latest media headlines

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componen el menú informativo de la prensa alrededor del mundo. En esta nota, tres vulcanólogos e Investigadores del Conicet le quitan el halo espectacular al acontecimiento y coinciden en que son eventos “bellísimos”, "potencialmente peligr
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Supervolcán en EU amenaza la vida de la Tierra: NASA2021-10-02T22:05+0200.

ESTADOS UNIDOS.- Es cierto que existe un sin fin de teorías que predicen el fin de la humanidad y ahora a éstas también se suma el supervolcán Yellowstone, ubicado en Estados Unidos; pero por fortuna, la Administración Nacional de Aeronáuti
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (32), (2), INGV (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),