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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 .
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, connecting the two volcanoes above surface (also known as the Molokai Saddle). The cliffs of the eastern side of West Molokai is the only remaining evidence for this land slip.
The island of Hawaiʻi comprises five volcanoes, of which two (Kilauea and Mauna Loa) are still active. Kamaʻehuakanaloa Seamount (formerly Lōʻihi) continues to grow offshore, and is the only known volcano in the chain in the submarine pre-shield stage. [1]
Longitude: from West to East this map definition covers 1.3719 degrees. At an image width of 200 pixels, that is 0.0069 degrees per pixel. At an image width of 1000 pixels, that is 0.0014 degrees per pixel. Latitude: from North to South this map definition covers 1.4775 degrees. At an image height of 200 pixels, that is 0.0074 degrees per pixel.
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 ...
The distance between the summit of the older Mauna Loa and the summit of Kamaʻehuakanaloa is about 50 mi (80 km), which is, coincidentally, also the approximate diameter of the Hawaiʻi hotspot. [3] Kamaʻehuakanaloa consists of a summit area with three pit craters , a 7 mi (11 km) long rift zone extending north from the summit, and a 12 mi ...
HANA, Hawaii - A small and "uncommon" earthquake shook the island of Maui just before 9 p.m. Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Service. It was measured at a magnitude 3.7, centered on the ...