HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Kilauea put on a record-breaking light show with episode 35 of its current eruption.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported record-high fountains for this eruption at nearly 1,500 feet, marking the highest single fountain and highest pair of fountains seen during this eruption.

The plume of gas above the fountains rose to over 16,000 feet above ground level, and tephra was reported by Hawaii County Civil Defense falling on Highway 11 southwest of the vents.

Natália Gauer Pasqualon, a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Hawaii at Mānoa’s Earth Sciences Department, told HNN that “tephra is a very broad term [used] for any rock fragment formed during an explosive an explosive eruption.”

One such fragment, “reticulite is very special... made up of 95% empt

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