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The massive lava flow reached the Pacific Ocean at Kapoho Bay on June 4. [7] [8] Lava entered the Kapoho Crater and evaporated Green Lake, which had been the largest natural freshwater lake in Hawaiʻi. On the night of June 4–5, the northeastern flow of lava speedily moved forward and destroyed the subdivision of Vacationland Hawaii. [9]
The ʻAilāʻau eruption is a prehistoric eruption of Kīlauea volcano on the island of Hawaiʻi in the Hawaiian Islands. Carbon 14 dated from approximately 1410 to 1470 with an eruptive volume of 5.2 ± 0.8 km 3 and fed by lava tubes near Kīlauea Iki crater, it was among the last of a series of highly voluminous lava flows since about 1290 that blanketed vast swaths of what is now Hawaii ...
A Hawaiian eruption is a type of volcanic eruption where lava flows from the vent in a relatively gentle, low level eruption; it is so named because it is characteristic of Hawaiian volcanoes. Typically they are effusive eruptions , with basaltic magmas of low viscosity , low content of gases, and high temperature at the vent.
This is the fifth eruption that we've had in the summit area of Kilauea since December of 2020," he said, adding that lava flows have already covered a 400-acre lava lake that began in 2020.
North Arch volcanic field [a] is an underwater volcanic field north of Oahu, Hawaii.It covers an area of about 25,000 square kilometres (9,700 sq mi) and consists of large expanses of alkali basalt, basanite and nephelinite that form extensive lava flows and volcanic cones.
Entrance to the lava tube. Kaumana Cave is a lava tube created by a 1881 lava flow from Mauna Loa. [1] The tube has been surveyed at 2.026 miles (2197 m) long making it the 57th longest lava tube in the world. [2] The cave is located on the island of Hawaiʻi near the city of Hilo.
These lava flows form Cape Kīnaʻu and coat the adjacent sea floor. Also within the reserve is the coastal part of an older, similar sequence of lava flows northwest of Kalua O Lapa. This older sequence, the Kanahena flows, erupted from an unnamed fissure at about 1,400 feet (430 m) altitude. [4]
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park offers the best views of the lava flow. At night, the lava's glow is "currently visible from many areas and overlooks surrounding Kaluapele (Kīlauea caldera)."