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Lava flowing from the summit crater of Mauna Ulu eastward into a po...

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This was only about 4 days after eruptive activity resumed at Mauna Ulu after temporarily ending on October 15, 1971. Lava flowed down the trench and reoccupied the lava tube into 'Alae.