Overflight Of Fissure 3 on Mauna Loa This Morning by USGS

As of 7:00 a.m. on December 12, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists observed only residual incandescence and no lava movement in the fissure 3 vent on the Northeast Rift Zone of Mauna Loa. The channels below the vent appear drained of lava and no longer feed the main flow front. USGS image by F. Trusdell. ~ USGS Emissions from the eruptive vents have fallen from 220,000-130,000 SO2 t/day at the height of the eruption down to just 2,000 t/day today.