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On Kīlauea's ERZ, the perched lava pond in Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō's west pit rem...

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On Kīlauea Volcano's East Rift Zone, the perched lava pond in Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō's west pit remains active. Additional overflows of the pond levees have been slowly filling the bottom of the west pit and raising the floor.

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Public Domain.