USGS Volcanoes - Lava from Fissure 8 has built a spatter cone that is now 180 ft tall at its highest point. The lava fountains rise only occasionally above that point. USGS
![Maunaloa volcano update: most of lava remains in pond within spatter cone, alert status lowered to 'Watch' Maunaloa volcano update: most of lava remains in pond within spatter cone, alert status lowered to 'Watch'](https://volcanodiscovery.de/uploads/pics/loa_04_l.jpg)
Maunaloa volcano update: most of lava remains in pond within spatter cone, alert status lowered to 'Watch'
![Models of the Formation of the 29 February 2016 New Spatter Cone Inside Mount Nyiragongo - Burgi - 2018 - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth - Wiley Online Library Models of the Formation of the 29 February 2016 New Spatter Cone Inside Mount Nyiragongo - Burgi - 2018 - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth - Wiley Online Library](https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/6abf803d-c86d-48aa-8870-f3a5e3ce5664/jgrb53120-fig-0002-m.jpg)