2018 Lower East Rift Zone Eruption and Summit Collapse
2018 Lower East Rift Zone Eruption and Summit Collapse
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2018 lower East Rift Zone Eruption and Summit Collapse at Kīlauea
In 2018, Kīlauea’s long-lived Pu‘u‘ō‘ō eruption, on the middle East Rift Zone, and decade-old summit lava lake eruption ended. A large lower East Rift Zone eruption partially drained the summit magma reservoir, which caused portions of the unsupported summit caldera floor to collapse.