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Kīlauea has a large summit caldera named Kaluapele (the pit of Pele), [18] measuring 4 by 3.2 km (2.5 by 2.0 mi) with walls up to 120 m (400 ft) high, breached by lava flows on the southwestern side. [24] The age of Kaluapele is unknown, and it is possible that it has appeared and disappeared multiple times. [22]
1996 (active) [2: 400,000 [2] The seamount is a submarine volcano approximately 35 km (22 mi) southeast of Hawaiʻi. It may eventually breach sea level and become the newest Hawaiian island. [2] Kīlauea: Big Island: 2021–ongoing (active) [10
The Kīlauea Caldera (Hawaiian: Kaluapele [2]), officially gazetted as Kīlauea Crater, is a caldera located at the summit of Kīlauea, an active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands. It has an extreme length of 2.93 mi (4.72 km), an extreme width of 1.95 mi (3.14 km), a circumference of 7.85 mi (12.63 km) and an area of 4.14 sq mi (10.7 km 2 ...
Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii started erupting on Monday following a three-month pause, the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. Kilauea began erupting around 2:30 a.m. local ...
Caribbean plate – A mostly oceanic tectonic plate including part of Central America and the Caribbean Sea – 3,300,000 km 2 (1,300,000 sq mi) Caroline plate – Minor oceanic tectonic plate north of New Guinea – 1,700,000 km 2 (660,000 sq mi) Cocos plate – Young oceanic tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of ...
The eruption is in Halemaʻumaʻu crater in Kilauea's⠯summit caldera at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on Hawaii's Big Island. Kīlauea makes up the southeastern side of the Big Island ...
Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, began erupting around 2:30 a.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Kilauea's average slope to the east is only 3.3°, [11] and the south slope from the summit to the ocean floor averages only 6°. [12]) When the volcano is over the hotspot a plentiful supply of magma allows it to build a broad shield; when it loses its supply of magma it dies and is eroded back to sea level.