Kīlauea Volcano
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2018 3:24 pm
America’s Most Hazardous Volcano Erupted This Year. Then It Erupted and Erupted.
A landmark study unspools a timeline of the most destructive eruption in recorded history of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano.
By Robin George Andrews
December 12, 2018
A lava fountain on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano on May 18. The eruptions of this spring and summer destroyed more than 700 homes.
Mario Tama/Getty Images
On April 30, the Pu‘u ‘O‘o crater on Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, suddenly collapsed. It was the starting point for the volcano’s
monthslong eruption, which went on to produce 320,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools’ worth of lava that transformed the
landscape and ultimately destroyed 700 homes.
Now the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and other scientists have published the first detailed summary
of this paroxysm. The landmark study, published in the journal Science on Tuesday, unspools a timeline of this volcano’s most
destructive eruption in recorded history, and shows that it contained a combination of volcanic events that has seldom been observed.
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A landmark study unspools a timeline of the most destructive eruption in recorded history of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano.
By Robin George Andrews
December 12, 2018
A lava fountain on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano on May 18. The eruptions of this spring and summer destroyed more than 700 homes.
Mario Tama/Getty Images
On April 30, the Pu‘u ‘O‘o crater on Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, suddenly collapsed. It was the starting point for the volcano’s
monthslong eruption, which went on to produce 320,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools’ worth of lava that transformed the
landscape and ultimately destroyed 700 homes.
Now the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and other scientists have published the first detailed summary
of this paroxysm. The landmark study, published in the journal Science on Tuesday, unspools a timeline of this volcano’s most
destructive eruption in recorded history, and shows that it contained a combination of volcanic events that has seldom been observed.
Read more: