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Nov 6, 2009 12:02 pm US/Pacific

Volcano Pumping Out Dozens Of Small Lava Flows

VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) ― Erupting Kilauea volcano is sending dozens of small lava flows to the ocean.

Jim Kauahikaua is the scientist-in-charge at the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory on the Big Island.

He says a flow destroyed a cabin this week. It was the last remaining structure in a flow field.

Kauahikaua adds the flows have come close to the trailhead leading to a lava viewing area, and have entered the ocean about 2,300 feet west of the still-active ocean entry at Waikupanaha.

He says flows are also creating a new lava tube system next to and over the main tube that has supplied lava to the ocean since March 2008.

(© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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