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Continued uplift at Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō

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For the past month and a half the crater floor of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō has been experiencing ongoing uplift, which has generated cracks on the crater floor. These cracks are cutting through both recent crater floor lava flows (darker) and the older flows.