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Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō — Breakout

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A breakout from the lava tube has also been active on the upper part of the flow field near Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō since December 5. The smoke is from a narrow finger of lava burning lichen on an older Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō lava flow. Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō is at upper right. The view is to the south-southwest.