I don't know if you've been paying any attention to the fissure eruption of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, but if you haven't, after a few weeks in which a pretty large amount of lava was pumped out (by Kilauea standards, not necessarily what Mauna Loa is capable of), the fissure eruption waned quickly and shut down. As each day passes, it's less and less likely that it will restart, which could mean the end of an eruptive sequence that began in 1983.
It's been a very eventful run, and resulted in the destruction of many homes, the natural paving-over of a great black sand beach (that I visited a couple of years before it happened), and a couple of fatalities, unfortunately. And it also provide a huge volume of volcano pictures featuring flowing, glowing fountains and rivers of lava, as well as chunky a'a flows, lava lakes and ponds, spectacular and varied ocean entries, lava bench collapses, and a lot of acidic vapors.
I've collected several pictures, and to note the apparent (not for sure) ending, here's the Fissure 8 cone on June 30th, in full flow.
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