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Scientists on Sunday were closely monitoring heightened activity at Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii, after a fissure sent lava spewing 65 feet in the air.
Kilauea has been in constant eruption for 28 years. But geologist Janet Babb of the U.S. Geological Survey said this weekend’s activity indicates “new episodes in eruptions and further unknowns.”
On Saturday, one of the volcano’s crater floors, named Pu’u ‘O’o, collapsed 370 feet, the Geological Survey said. The event was accompanied by 150 small earthquakes, all confined to the volcanic area.
Separately, on the volcano’s eastern side, a 535 yard-long fissure in the ground opened, spewing lava 65 feet in the air, the Geological Survey said. Also, another crater called Napau began erupting.
An effusive eruption of basalt lava from Pu`u `O`o in 1984:image US Geological Survey,
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