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This photograph shows the east rim of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō. A collapsed spatt...

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This photograph shows the east rim of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō crater. A collapsed spatter cone revealed a swiftly flowing stream of lava heading northeast, into the tube system that supplies the active flow field. The active flows today were 6 km (3.7 miles) southeast of Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō.