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This map shows recent changes to Kīlauea's active East Rift Zone lava flow field. The area covered by the June 27th flow as of June 2 is shown in orange. The areas covered by the new breakouts at Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō as of May 26 are shown in pink, while widening and advancement of the new breakouts as mapped on June 2 is shown in red.

The 1887 lava flow erupted from Mauna Loa's Southwest Rift Zone crossed the government road (about a 1,000 feet south of today's Highway 11), traveling 14 km (9 mi) in less than 9 hours. Photo by J.J. Williams, courtesy of National Park Service.

Video showing a small channelized flow, as well as the skylight described above, on the breakout on the east flank of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō.

View of breakout on northeast flank of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō. The light-colored flows in the foreground are active pāhoehoe flows. The view is to the southeast. Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō is at upper right.

View of recent breakout on east flank of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō. The flow has advanced about 1.3 km (0.8 miles), but activity today was focused in the middle part of the flow, closer to its vent. The view is to the west.

This photo, looking southwest, shows Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō in the background, with the northern breakout from May 24 extending to the right, with fume coming from a newly forming tube. The feature in the center foreground is a perched lava pond that formed in July 2014, but was refilled by new lava from the northern breakout in recent days.

Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō's current crater subsided by about 10 m (33 ft) in the days following the May 24 breakouts. This view, looking southeast, shows the crater as it was today. HVO webcams are perched on the edge of the Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō cone (an older crater rim) in the foreground.

Overnight on May 13-14, a new spatter cone, shown here, grew over a vent high on the northeast rim of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō. HVO scientists for scale.

A close-up view of the spatter cone.

The ground around the spatter cone was covered in small gobs of spatter and Pele's hair, as shown here.

This is another view of the breakout on the east flank of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō. It forms the lighter-colored surface in the lower left quadrant of the photo. Note the orange speck on the breakout - this is the skylight shown in the adjacent photos and the video below.

A closer view of the skylight on the east breakout. The skylight is about 6 m (20 ft) across, and the lava stream is traveling toward the upper right side of the photo.

An even closer view of the skylight (about 6 m or 20 ft across). Again, the lava stream is flowing to the upper right.

The photo was taken from a vantage looking up Avalanche Gulch at Red Banks (a line of cliffs along the ridge central to the photograph).

Video of spattering along the north margin of Kīlauea Volcano's summit lava lake.

The summit lava lake in Halema‘uma‘u Crater was at a high level earlier in the week, and partly visible from the Jaggar Museum Overlook at times. But over the past few days, the lake level has dropped slightly.

A wider view of the lava lake within the Overlook crater, from the rim of Halema‘uma‘u Crater (closed to the public due to hazardous conditions). Two spattering areas were active, one along the north margin and another in the southeast corner of the lake.

A closer look at the northern spatter source, which spanned roughly 30 meters (100 feet) of the lake margin.

The two new flows that broke out on the flanks of the Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō cone on Kīlauea Volcano's East Rift Zone on May 24 remained active early this morning. The flows were spreading laterally near the vent, but making little forward progress; as a result, they were not posing a threat to any community.

Hawai‘i ‘amakihi with avian pox. Symptoms of this virus, which can be spread by mosquitoes, include tumor-like lesions on unfeathered parts of a bird's body, including feet and legs, around the eyes, and at the base of the bill. USGS photo.

This small-scale map shows Kīlauea's active East Rift Zone lava flow field in relation to the eastern part of the Island of Hawai‘i. The new breakouts from Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō that began on May 24 are shown in red, as mapped on May 25. The area of the original June 27th lava flow field is shown in pink, as last mapped in detail on May 9.