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Like all Hawaiian volcanoes, Mauna Loa was created as the Pacific tectonic plate moved over the Hawaii hotspot in the Earth's underlying mantle. [10] The Hawaii island volcanoes are the most recent evidence of this process that, over 70 million years, has created the 3,700 mi (6,000 km)-long Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain. [11]
Maunaloa (Hawaiian pronunciation: [mɐwnəˈlowə]) or Mauna Loa [2] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Maui County, Hawaiʻi, United States, in the western part of the island of Molokai. The population was 435 at the 2020 census .
Mauna Loa Estates is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States. It is on the eastern side of Kilauea on the island of Hawaii and is bordered to the north, across Hawaii Route 11, by the community of Volcano. Mauna Loa Estates was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.
Map this section's coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... Of the 13 major summits of Hawaiʻi, Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa exceed 4000 meters ...
Mauna Loa, taking up over half of the Big Island, is the largest shield volcano on the Earth. The measurement from sea level to summit is more than 2.5 miles (4 km), from sea level to sea floor about 3.1 miles (5 km).
The Mauna Loa summit, cabins and high-elevation areas have been closed since early October when the summit first began "experiencing heightened unrest." Mauna Loa Observatory, located just outside ...
Mauna Loa on the Island of Hawaiʻi is the most voluminous mountain on Earth. Haleakalā is the highest summit of the Island of Maui . Mount Shishaldin on Unimak Island in Alaska is the highest summit of the Aleutian Islands .
Following the eruption of the world's largest active volcano, Mauna Loa, in Hawaii earlier this week, officials say the lava flows are moving towards a main highway on the island, prompting fears.