Mauna Loa’s Northeast Rift Zone eruption continues, with reduced vigor
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Aerial view of the front of a lava flow from fissure 3 on Mauna Loa's Northeast Rift Zone. Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists noted that the supply of lava was reduced the morning of Thursday. Lava was overtopping channels near the vent with flows extending no farther than 2.75 mi (4.4 km) from the vent the morning of Thursday (one of which is pictured here).
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Aerial image of fissure 3 erupting on the Northeast Rift Zone of Mauna Loa on Thursday. Lava fountain heights were very variable on Thursday; the fountains were jet like, sometimes spraying at an angle just off vertical and with pulses of activity.
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Aerial image of fissure 3 erupting on the Northeast Rift Zone of Mauna Loa on Thursday. The eruption has built up a cone around the vent, which was 98 feet (30 meters) tall on Wednesday.
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Lava boats are visible in the upper parts of the fissure 3 lava channel during the Northeast Rift Zone eruption of Mauna Loa on Thursday. Lava boats or lava balls form when portions of the fissure cone or lava channel levees break away and are rafted down the lava stream. As they move along in the channel, additional lava can cool to their surface to form accretionary lava balls.
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Aerial image of the Northeast Rift Zone of Mauna Loa on Thursday. The fissure 3 lava fountain is visible in the distance, and the lava channel issuing from it in a northeast direction dominates the foreground.
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Aerial image of fissure 3 erupting on the Northeast Rift Zone of Mauna Loa on Thursday. Lava fountain heights were very variable on Thursday; the fountains were jet like, sometimes spraying at an angle just off vertical (as shown in this photo).
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