South flank of Pu`u`O`o before and after collapse of west flank in 1997, Kilauea Volcano, Hawai`i

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Aerial view of lava breakout from tube on Pulama pali, Kilauea Volcano, Hawai`i

Photographs by J. Kauahikaua on May 21, 1998

View of pahoehoe flow moving through `oh`ia forest, Kilauea Volcano, Hawai`i

Top: Aerial view looking southwestward across one of the lava breakouts (shiny gray and red surface) produced when magma from Pu`u `O`o reentered the tube system following a brief pause in the eruption. The lava channel spreading from the skylight in the tube (lower right) is feeding an `a`a flow that moves down Pulama pali (left) out of view. Bottom: Lava moves through trees in one of the many kipuka created by the Pu`u `O`o-Kupaianaha eruption. Following many of the eruptive pauses in 1998 and 1999, breakouts repeatedly sent flows into several kipuka, sometimes completely covering them with lava .