19.4.1998 View from Pas des Sables across Le Plaine des Sables, road leads to Pas de Bellecombe. Piton de la Fournaise (center) and Piton Chisny (right) in the background. | 19.4.1998 From Pas de Bellecombe: Cratère Magne (left), steaming Piton Kapor (center) and Piton de la Fournaise (right). | 19.4.1998 from Piton Kapor's flank.Lava flows towards the Cratère Magne. In the background sea of clouds against the Nez Coupé de S. Rose. | 19.4.1998 same location as picture on the left. The small lava lake on the right is being refilled after a period of outflow. |
19.4.1998 from Piton Kapor's flank. Lava flow towards the Cratère Magne. | 19.4.1998 The small lava lake has been filled and outflows. | 19.4.1998 Strombolian activity at Piton Kapor. Left: lava flowing towards Cratère Magne. | 25.4.1998 from Piton Kapor's top to N, 10 meters S of the active vent we observe ejection of lava clots. |
21.4.1998 from the Piton Kapor's flank. Suddenly a surge of pressure in the lava fall destroys the cover on it's top causing violent spattering. Roby on the right. | 21.4.1998 same position as left. A pressure surge in the lava flow fills an ephemeral lava lake on top of the solified pahoehoe flow. The lava fall continues to spatter on the left. | 21.4.1998 Detail of the very fluid lava fall: On the top right is covered by a pulsating sheet of solified lava. | 21.4.1998 Detail of the lava fall: drops from lava stalactites are being dragged by the gas flow in the same direction as the lava flow. |