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View showing individual vents

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View showing individual vents on floor of Pu`u `O`o crater. Largest plume comes from East Pond Vent. January vent is hidden by fume from East Pond Vent. Beehive vent is just right of upper center, and Drainhole vent gives off slight fume just left of Beehive. West Gap Pit, site of brief lava-lake activity on October 3 (see images below), emits strong fume cloud in upper right. Dark flows erupted from January vent and East Pond Vent in past month.

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