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The carcass of a large silver-tipped grizzly bear, which succumbed to poisonous gases in the area known as "Death Gulch" in Yellowstone National Park in 1897. Image from Popular Science Monthly Volume 54, Public Domain, accessed from https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15271684.

Geologist taking a cold pāhoehoe lava sample of a August 2 overflow near Noni Farms Road.

There were small active ooze outs near the coast on the Kapoho Bay and Ahalanui lobes but the laze plume was greatly diminished. Active lava is close to the Pohoiki boat ramp but has not advanced significantly toward it.

Aerial view of an open channel west of Kapoho Crater. According to geologists flying over the area, the flow appeared be the result of draining from the upslope channel; no discernible movement was observed.

A diffuse laze plume this morning afforded a clear view of Isaac Hale Beach Park and the ocean entry, which was being fed across a broad front by viscous pāhoehoe. Lava flows in this area have thus far spared the Pohoiki boat ramp, visible at left.

This thermal map shows the fissure system and lava flows as of 12:30 pm on Friday, August 3. The fountain at Fissure 8 remains active, with the lava flow entering the ocean. The dominant ocean entry points were on the section of coastline near Ahalanui. The black and white area is the extent of the thermal map.

View of growing Halema‘uma‘u from the southeast side of Kīlauea Crater.

Early morning photo of Halema‘uma‘u, taken from the eastern rim. Inward slumping of the rim and walls of the crater continues. Ash from previous collapse events is remobilized by the wind, as pictured in the center left of the photo in the distance.

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field crews take measurements and observations of the fissure 8 cone, in the Leilani Estates subdivision. Today, occasional bursts of spatter splashed over south rim of the cone, sending spatter down south flank of the cone almost to its base.

This Hawai‘i County Fire Department aerial image shows Kapoho Crater with the most active branch of the fissure 8 lava channel now to the west (right) of the cone and feeding a robust ocean entry.

Aerial view of Isaac Hale Beach Park. The westernmost ocean entry is overriding lava flows that entered the area last week.

The fissure 8 vent (far distance, upper right) continues to feed an active lava channel on Kīlauea Volcano's lower East Rift Zone, shown here on July 26, 2018.

Rockfalls occur regularly around the Kīlauea Caldera during summit collapse events. This photograph shows rocks falling from the cliffs below Uēkahuna Bluff just after the 11:55 a.m. collapse today.

An aerial view of Kīlauea Volcano's summit taken on August 1.

Sink holes (dark spots to right of large tree) are beginning to form along fractures beneath the field of tephra that has formed downwind of fissure 8.

Then and now. It has proven difficult to exactly match past and present views of Kīlauea's summit to show the dramatic changes in the volcanic landscape, but here's our latest attempt. At left is a photo taken on November 28, 2008, with a distinct gas plume rising from the vent that had opened within Halema‘uma‘u about eight months earlier.

Map as of 10:00 a.m. HST, August 3, 2018. Given the dynamic nature of Kīlauea's lower East Rift Zone eruption, with changing vent locations, fissures starting and stopping, and varying rates of lava effusion, map details shown here are accurate as of the date/time noted. Shaded purple areas indicate lava flows erupted in 1840, 1955, 1960, and 2014-2015.

Aerial view toward the southwest of the ‘a‘ā lava flows along the coast. Plumes of laze along the broad ocean entry flow front are near the former Ahalanui Beach Park.

In this aerial view looking to the north, a robust ocean entry plume can be seen rising from just offshore of Ahalanui Beach Park, which was inundated with lava yesterday.

Taken from the July 31 morning overflight, this photo shows the west side of the fissure 8 lava channel with Kapoho Crater in the foreground. Fissure 8 and its gas plume are visible in the distance.

During an overflight this morning, the Hawaii County Fire Department captured this image looking east toward Kapoho Crater.