People watch from a viewing area as an explosion takes place at the base of the plume where molten lava is pumping into the ocean on the Island of Hawaii Monday July 14, 2008. Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, has been erupting since Jan. 3, 1983. Surface flows emerge near the ocean on the southeast side of the Big Island, where people can see the lava from a viewing area a few hundred feet away.
(AP Photo/Leigh Hilbert)