Views of Episode 53 vent and flows on south flank Pu`u`O`o, Kilauea Volcano, Hawai`i

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Photograph by C. Heliker on February 21, 1993	Views of episode 53 vent active on south flank of Pu`u `O`o. The vent began erupting on February 20, 1993. Within four days, it formed a broad, dome-shaped spatter cone 13 m high. Top: Aerial view looking northwest of lava fountain and flows spreading from the episode 53 vent at the base of Pu`u `O`o. In the foreground, pahoehoe flows cascade over a small escarpment. Bottom: View of the lava fountain from the tephra-covered slope of Pu`u `O`o. The fountain is about 15 m high.
Photograph by C. Heliker on February 21, 1993
Lava flows from the episode 53 vent spread southward from Pu`u `O`o. On February 23, 1993, the flows roofed over and drained into a skylight of the main lava tube system leading from the still-active episode 51 vents. Lava from the two vents coalesced in the tube and eventually reached the sea at Kamoamoa.

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