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'Rainbow ERUPTION' 🌋🌈 Rainbow appears during record-breaking Kilauea eruption #shorts

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June 8, 2026

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Photographer Alyssa Lee captured two of nature's most epic phenomenon's in one magic moment!

USGS Volcanoes noted the significance of this eruption in an X post, stating:

Episode 48 of the Kīlauea summit eruption in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park stopped at 1:37 pm HST June 1 after 9 hours of lava fountaining. This eruption has now surpassed the number of fountaining episodes in the opening years of the Puʻuʻōʻō eruption from 1983-1986 (47), setting a new record number of fountaining episodes in any one Kīlauea eruption.

#kilauea #volcanoes #hawaii #rainbows

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