Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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On September 11, 2023, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists conducted an overflight to study a new eruption in the Kīlauea summit caldera, focusing on the east part of Halemaʻumaʻu crater and the adjacent downdropped block formed in the 2018 collapse, with a safe location identified for collecting a molten sample to understand magma characteristics, requiring permission and coordination with Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.

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