The grassy area around the flagpole at Kīlauea Military Camp in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park on March 10 during Episode 43 of the ongoing Kīlauea episodic summit eruption, which shed tephra that accumulated on the area and completely covered the ground surface. (Photo Courtesy: US Geological Survey)

Officials said Episode 43 began at 9:17 am with low-level fountaining from Halemaumau.

The number 43 is for Episode 43 of the ongoing Kīlauea volcano episodic summit eruption that ejected that tephra during just more than 9 hours of sustained high lava fountaining that began shortly after 9 a.m. and ended just before 6:30 p.m.

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