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A wider view of the Kapoho area. In the lower left, quarrying is present in the

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A wider view of the Kapoho area. In the lower left, quarrying is present in the red oxidized cinder of the 1960 eruption cone. Kapoho Crater, a prehistoric vent, is the vegetated cone in the center of the photo. The original village of Kapoho, destroyed in the 1960 eruption, was present in the area between the 1960 cone and Kapoho crater. At the top of the photo, fuming can be seen coming from the wide area of 2018 lava that covered the Kapoho Farm Lots subdivision. The Kapoho Beach Lots and Vacationland Hawai‘i subdivisions were also covered by 2018 lava, and were closer to the shoreline at the top of the image. Highway 132 road construction passes through the center of the photo, with the Four Corners area visible at the left edge. USGS photo by D. Becker.

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