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The world's largest active volcano, Mauna Loa, erupted late Sunday night after laying dormant for nearly 40 years, the U.S. Geological Service's (USGS) volcanic activity service reported. As a ...
“Mauna Loa erupted last year for 12 magnificent days, but that was the first time it had erupted since 1984,” Ferracane said. Kīiauea erupts more often, most recently in September, but she ...
FILE - A man talks on a phone in his car alongside Saddle Road as the Mauna Loa volcano erupts Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, near Hilo, Hawaii. The world's largest volcano continues to erupt but ...
Before 2022, Mauna Loa had last erupted in March 1984, in a 22-day event similarly concentrated in the volcano's Northeast Rift Zone. [6] The 2022 eruption was the volcano's 34th eruption since 1843, when volcanic activity at Mauna Loa began to be continuously recorded, but only the third eruption since 1950.
Two distinct rift zones are present on the western flank of the volcano, forming a v shape. A third rift zone possibly extended eastward towards the modern day East Molokai Volcano. A collapse occurred around (uncertain) years ago on the eastern/north eastern flank of the volcano and lava flows from East Molokai had filled in the open space ...
When Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, erupted this week for the first time in almost four decades, it wasn’t just a major geological
The scientific community is abuzz following the first eruption of Mauna Loa—the world’s largest volcano, situated on the Island of Hawaii—since 1984. The eruption occurred just before ...
Eruption name 0 November 27, 2022 () December 13, 2022: Mokuʻāweoweo and Northeast Rift Zone: 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa: 0 March 25, 1984 () April 15, 1984 () Mokuʻāweoweo, Southwest and Northeast rift zones: 1984 eruption of Mauna Loa: 0 July 5, 1975 () July 6, 1975 ()