Live Volcano Webcams

The entire island chain of Hawaii is built from multiple volcanic peaks, with huge old Mauna Loa and very active Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island. Kilauea itself erupts from various fissures, cones, craters and lava lakes which have their own names. The Hawaii Volcanoes Observatory website keeps track of all this activity, but it's a little hard to navigate the site. Here's highlights.

Kilauea's Hottest Volcano Cams:
Halema'uma'u Volcano Cam monitors the central caldera -- the main vent -- of Kilauea volcano. Most of the crater floor is solid right now, but since March 2008 the summit crater has been erupting with frequent ash clouds, explosions and a lava lake.
Halema'uma'u Overlook Cam peers down into that lava lake shown above. It's bigger than it looks--as of February 2011, about 150m (500 ft) in diameter.
Pu'u O'o Cam is my favorite, monitoring an eruption of a vent of Kilauea that's been going since 1983, building a mini-mountain with its own lava lake. The lake collapsed dramatically in March 2011 and is now refilling.

Note that unlike most volcano webcams, which mostly show steam and ash explosions, Hawaii's volcano cams are often even more spectacular at night due to glow of lava:


Above: screencaps I grabbed from Napau Crater Webcam during brief eruption in March.

Other Hawai'i Volcano Cams include Mauna Loa, an independent, larger volcano on the Big Island of Hawai'i which erupts less often than Kilauea Volcano, and various "hot spots" on Kliauea where recent outbreaks have occurred (notably a couple areas of the East Rift Zone which erupted on March 5, the day that Pu'u O'o's lake collapsed).

Also see the Kilauea Eruption Timeline, Images and Image Archives pages which have recent eruption summaries, news, images and videos -- note that many of the still images link to Quicktime movies!

Tip: Open this daylight world map in a spare window. Some volcanoes are active enough to show at night or on thermal cameras, but most cams are dark at night.

White Island Volcano, New Zealand Webcam one -- screenshot I saved in 2007 when I first created this page. The Dino the Dinosaur puppet drew my attention. Scan down on their FAQ for an old photo and partial explanation: it's been there since 2004!

• Puyehue-Cordón Caulle Webcams, Chile One | Two from OVDAS site
• Etna Observatory Webcams and Mt. Aetna Webcam, Italy.
  
• Stromboli Webcams, Italy. Includes infrared.
  
• Sakurajima, Japan
  
• Popocatépetl, Mexico is one of several webcams on Popo's monitoring website.
  
• Turrialba Volcano Webcam, Costa Rica
  
• Colima Volcano Webcam, Mexico.
  
• Montserrat Volcano Observatory, Carribbean, has a small webcam on Soufriere Hills, the volcano which has rendered half thelr island uninhabitable.
  
• New Zealand Volcano Cams are an index of NZ volcanoes: run your cursor over the map for cams. White Island is the volcano seen in several films made in NZ.
  
• Yellowstone Geysers and Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone supervolcano. (Yellowstone is dormant but heated from below by magma).

As of June 7, 2011, these live volcano cams are realtime (or close to it) but the volcanoes themselves are dozing. Of course, this could've changed by the time you check my page!

Volcano Cams for Chile in sidebar (click links: thumbnails are NOT live)

• Arenal Volcano Cam, Costa Rica
  
• Chaiten from local airfield.
  
• Cascade Volcanoes Webcams include Mount St. Helens, Mt. Rainier and dozens of other volcano cams in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.
  
• Alaskan Volcanes Webcams has thumbnails and links to 20 volcanoes monitored by the Alaska Volcano Observatory, including Katmai and Mt. Redoubt. These are fun to browse; click on a volcano to get the current webcam shot, then scroll down to watch a timelapse movie of the last week for each volcano.
  
• Kamchatka Volcano Cams, Russia, in the volcanically active Kamchatka Peninsula north of Japan. Cams cover: Shiveluch, Klyuchevskoy, Bezymianny, Koryaksky, Avachinsky.
  
• Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland is the volcano that shut down Europe air travel in 2010. Beautiful live streaming cam, even if it's not erupting. 
  
• Surtsey, Iceland is a new volcano that emerged from the sea in the 60s.
  
• Santorini Volcano Cams, Greece. This volcano has been fairly docile in modern times, but blew up in an eruption 4 times the size of Krakatoa in about 1500 BCE, possibly giving rise to the Atlantis legend (it buried a thriving city on what little was left of the island).
  
• Mount Fuji, Japan
  
• Mt. Ararat, Turkey
  
• 40 Japanese Volcanoes Webcams from the Japanese Meteorological society -- you'll have to run it through Google Translate to get the names.
  
• Gulkana Airport Volcano Cam, Alaska: not exciting right now, but this is the cam to check for Mt Sanford, Mt Drum, Mt Wrangell, and Mt Blackburn.
  
• Mt. Merapi and Mt. Sinabung, Indonesia (Click icons on map for webcam views, or click "Kamara" links at top for webcams at other locations. "Laharan" cameras are watching for lahars, dangerous volcanic mudslides which can travel many miles very fast and sweep away anything in their path.)
  
• Taal Volcano, Phillipines

As of June 10, 2011, these are offline, but they'll probably be back up in the future.

Mount Erebus, Antarctica is offline right now but will be back up (they say) in Dec 2011. This volcano is very active and put on spectacular displays when the cam was working.