1995-1999 PHOTO GALLERY:
NE Crater
Views of NE Crater on 5 August 1997.
Left: a view from the cone cluster on the southwestern crater rim over the
collapsed central area of the crater floor, towards the northwestern crater
rim. Steam is issuing from the central collapse pit at the right margin of
the photo. The right image shows the fuming central collapse pit with its
vertical, and in places even overhanging, walls, a hostile environment
NE Crater ten days after its 27-28 March 1998
eruptive episode.
Left photo is a view from the western rim of the Voragine towards the south
side of NE Crater on 6 April 1998. An eruptive episode on 27-28 March has
left a deposit of black bombs on the cone's slope, but note that this deposit
does not extend to the place from where the photo was taken. Some of the small
cones built on the southwestern and southern crater rim in the summer of 1996
are visible at the crest of the NE Crater, in the upper part of the image.
Right photo is a view (taken on 6 April 1998) from the southeastern rim of
the central collapse pit towards the northeastern part of the crater floor
where subsidence has exposed a large lava tube that was active in July-August
1996. Note black bombs from the eruptive episode ten days earlier covering
the crater floor.
Collapsed southern flank of NE Crater.
View westwards from the northeastern rim of the Voragine, showing the collapsed
southern flank of the NE Crater on 1 November 1998. The collapse occurred during
the powerful eruptive episode from the Voragine (which lies to the left of the
photo), when a lava flow flowing westwards evidently undercut the flank.
