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New Kilauea eruption begins within Kaluapele

The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory has downgraded Kilauea’s alert level to watch and its aviation color code to orange as the summit eruption within Halemaumau crater stabilizes.

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From the closed area of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists documented the new eruption within Kalupele (the summit caldera) that started at 2:20 a.m. Monday, Dec. 23. HVO geologists collected samples of the new eruption that were being deposited on the caldera rim west of the caldera and they documented the lava fountains that were reaching up to 260 feet.
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From the closed area of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists documented the new eruption within Kalupele (the summit caldera) that started at 2:20 a.m. Monday, Dec. 23. HVO geologists collected samples of the new eruption that were being deposited on the caldera rim west of the caldera and they documented the lava fountains that were reaching up to 260 feet.
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From the closed area of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists documented the new eruption within Kalupele (the summit caldera) that started at 2:20 a.m. Monday, Dec. 23. HVO geologists collected samples of the new eruption that were being deposited on the caldera rim west of the caldera and they documented the lava fountains that were reaching up to 260 feet.
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From the closed area of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists documented the new eruption within Kalupele (the summit caldera) that started at 2:20 a.m. Monday, Dec. 23. HVO geologists collected samples of the new eruption that were being deposited on the caldera rim west of the caldera and they documented the lava fountains that were reaching up to 260 feet.
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From the closed area of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists documented the new eruption within Kalupele (the summit caldera) that started at 2:20 a.m. Monday, Dec. 23. HVO geologists collected samples of the new eruption that were being deposited on the caldera rim west of the caldera and they documented the lava fountains that were reaching up to 260 feet.
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From the closed area of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists documented the new eruption within Kalupele (the summit caldera) that started at 2:20 a.m. Monday, Dec. 23. HVO geologists collected samples of the new eruption that were being deposited on the caldera rim west of the caldera and they documented the lava fountains that were reaching up to 260 feet.

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