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Active vent on the floor of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō slowly filling the east side

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Earlier this week, lava began erupting from a vent on the floor of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater. The mound on the right side of the photo is the vent producing lava flows, slowly filling the east side of the crater.