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Audrey McAvoy HONOLULU (AP) – Lava is shooting 30 to 60 metres into the air as Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, erupts for the first time in nearly 40 years. For now, lava is not threatening any homes or communities and no evacuation orders have been issued. Lava could eventually reach neighbourhoods […]
scientific expedition to actually go out to sea and actually go out to sea and actually map this area. we assumed, based on the silence of explosion, that an area of 2000 square kilometres would be affected by this eruption the size of. this is 20 kilometres radius from the volcano. what we discovered once we mapped this, we did not map enough, the volcano even exceeded our maximum expectations about how far the effects of this eruption was on the seafloor. it really was an absolutely outstanding event. and how has it changed the geological make up the area? surprisingly, the volcano itself was intact, and that s unusual because when volcanoes erupt of this magnitude, usually blow themselves up. think out vesuvius, mount st helens or mount krakatoa. in this case it was intact but has left a hole in the centre quarter that s two kilometres