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In this webcam photo provided by the U.S. Geological Survey, a fountain of lava shoots up from the latest episode of an ongoing eruption of Kilauea volcano inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on ...

in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big island. Tuesday was the eruption’s 12th episode. What began in the morning with sporadic, small flows became continuous fountaining in the afternoon ...

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The eruption began Dec. 23 in a crater at the summit of Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the Big island.