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Kīlauea summit eruption - Jan. 3, 2020, at 1:30 a.m. HST

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Early this morning, the west vents in Halema‘uma‘u spattered from two places at the top of a small cone plastered on the northwest wall. This process can be seen in Kīlauea Volcano's summit F1 thermal webcam view of the lava lake. USGS photo by H. Dietterich. 

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