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Eventful Week at Kīlauea's Summit Culminates in Small Explosion

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This was the view from the Mauna Loa Strip Road in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park at 7 a.m. this morning. Stagnant surface winds, combined with higher elevation winds from the southwest, caused the plume to rise straight up and then shear off to the northeast. April 10, 2008

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