Ever wonder what it would look like to be engulfed in a lava fountain as you choke on volcanic ash and burn to death? No? Well, you’re wondering now, aren’t you?

Don’t worry, what you’re about to see is totally PG—no living beings were harmed in the making of this video. The same can’t be said for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) webcam that captured it, though. The V3 camera, located on the south rim of the Kīlauea volcano’s Halema‘uma‘u crater in Hawaii, caught jaw-dropping footage of an eruption on Saturday.

In the video, burning rock and ash rain down, completely obscuring V3’s field of view within minutes. Moments later, the video feed glitches, then goes black. The webcam goes completely offline.

“RIP V3,” the USGS wrote in an X post. The agency’s V1 and V2 cameras continue

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