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Pu`u `O`o - Kupaianaha Eruption of Kilauea Volcano - December 23, 2000

Kilauea Volcano
 Photographs by USGS
photo and caption credit
 U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey

A thick `a`a flow descended from Pulama pali into a vegetated kipuka and is bounded to the west by a 1985 `a`a flow. The flow is igniting trees and causing large, though infrequent, methane explosions heard and felt tens or even hundreds of meters away.

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