Ahu'aila'au (IMAGE)

Carnegie Institution for Science

Ahu'aila'au

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Lava fountaining from the most productive eruptive fissure, called fissure 8 at the time and now named Ahu'aila'au, built a cinder cone 55 meters high, about the height of a 10-story building. Most of the 2018 lower East Rift Zone eruption's 0.8 cubic kilometers of lava erupted from this point.

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B. Shiro, USGS

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