page_title: Puʻu ʻŌʻō
section_title: 1983 – 1986: High lava fountains build tall cinder and spatter cone
hierarchical_section_title: Puʻu ʻŌʻō / Geologic history / 1983 – 1986: High lava fountains build tall cinder and spatter cone
caption_attribution_description: English: http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/archive/2008/Apr/20080430_ovrvw_upd_L.jpg USGS Public Domain 1983-Apr 2008 Flows
context_page_description: Puʻu ʻŌʻō is a volcanic cone in the eastern rift zone of the Kīlauea volcano of the Hawaiian Islands. Until the end of April 2018, Puʻu ʻŌʻō had been erupting nearly continuously since January 3, 1983, making it the longest-lived rift-zone eruption of the last two centuries.
  By January 2005, 2.7 cubic kilometers of magma covered an area of more than 117 square kilometers and added 230 acres of land to the southeast coast of Hawaiʻi. The eruption claimed at least 189 buildings and 14 kilometers of highways, as well as a church, a store, the Wahaʻula Visitor Center, and many ancient Hawaiian sites, including the Wahaʻula heiau. The coastal highway has been closed since 1987, as parts of the road have been buried under lava up to 35 meters thick.
context_section_description: The Puʻu ʻŌʻō eruption began when fissures split the ground in the remote rainforest of the eastern rift zone, on January 3, 1983. By June 1983, the activity had strengthened and localized to the Puʻu ʻŌʻō vent. Over the next three years, 44 eruptive episodes with lava fountains as high as 460 meters (1,510 ft) stopped traffic at points across east Hawaiʻi. The fallout of cinder and spatter from the towering lava fountains built a cone 255 meters (837 ft) high.
caption: USGS Map of Historic Flows 1983–April, 2008
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