Kīlauea

Mt.Kilauea is a volcano that makes up the southeastern side of the island Hawaii. Mt Kilauea has had more than 60 eruptions and has been erupting continuously since Jan. 3, 1983.Kilauea is thought to have killed around 80 people when it erupted without warning in the late 1780s.Most recently 2,000 people to evacuate thier homes.The volcano’s elevation is 4,091.Mt.Kilauea is a shield volcano which are the largest volcanos in the world.Kilauea is one of five volcanoes that make up Hawaii. The other four are Kohala, Hualalai, Mauna Loa, and Mauna Kea.Kohola is the oldest volcano on Hawaii Island at more than one million years old and Kilauea is the youngest at between 300,000 and 600,000 years old.Kilauea's summit caldera is large at 2 miles by 2 miles in size.…

Shield volcanoes are formed by many different lava flows that layer over time. Mount Kilauea is a well-known shield volcano in Hawaii. Before it erupts, it is known to inflate as magma pushes upward from its magma chamber. Seismic activity usually precludes Kilauea’s eruptions by about 24 hours. Their eruptions consist mostly of lava flowing out of the summit or through lava tubes in what is known as a flank eruption. The lava that flows from these volcanoes is highly basaltic in nature. Because…

Kilimanjaro rises approximately 4,877 metres (16,001 ft) from its southern base in the plains near the municipality of Moshi to its summit height of 5,895 metres (19,341 ft).[2] Kilimanjaro is the highest volcano outside South America.[7] Kilimanjaro is a large stratovolcano and is composed of three distinct volcanic cones: Kibo, the highest; Mawenzi at 5,149 metres (16,893 ft);[8] and Shira, the shortest at 4,005 metres (13,140 ft).[9] Mawenzi and Shira are extinct, while Kibo is dormant and…

Hawaii’s Kilauea versus Mount Fujiyama Ever since I was a little girl I have always been fascinated with volcanoes. How do they work? How hot is the lava exactly? Can you travel down into the funnel of a volcano, and if so how and will you survive? And do all volcanoes function the same way? As a child, we never understood that the beautiful hot magma that flows from the volcano is dangerous and burns everything in its path. Two volcanoes that have always caught my eye is Hawaii’s Kilauea and…

Mauna Kea is the largest volcano on Earth it remains dormant and possess very little threat or hazard to mankind. The true danger comes from Mauna Loa and Kilauea. Over the decades Mauna Kea has spawned countless lava flow on the big island of Hawaii (see illustration below). Mauna Loa alone has erupted 32 times since 1843 until 1984 and has generated enough lava flows to cover 806 square kilometers at a volume of 4.124 km3 that is nearly 16 percent of the volcano's surface (USGS, 2004). Kilauea…

Today, I’m going to visit Hawaii Volcanoes National Park . I ‘m really excited about the trip to the National Park; however, the twelve hour flight will take forever. As I get off the plane, it’s sunny, warm, and bit humid. I am glad I chose October because it's a dry mouth, so I don't expect rain. To begin I have booked a Camper Cabin at the Namakanipaio Campground which is nice because tomorrow I’m going hiking. I booked a five hour visit to explore the summit of Kīlauea volcano along with…

Hawaii has recorder statistics on the Kilauea volcano and has been recorder the number of eruption. It was recorded that “fifty-seven eruptions and intrusions occurred at Kilauea between 1960 and 1983, after which the volcano has been in a state of virtually continuous eruption (Bell, Kilburn, 2012).” These earthquakes were mostly predicted by earthquakes, but this is not necessary the main reason for an eruption. When these eruptions occurred most of the magma was transported through rift…

President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill into law creating the thirteenth national park on August 1, 1916. Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, located on the Island of Hawai’i, 96 miles from Kailua-Kona and 30 miles from Hilo, two of the world’s most active volcanoes, Kilauea and Mauna Loa. The park is home to sixteen species of mammals, seventy seven species of birds, eleven different reptiles, four kinds of fish and 1,211 vascular plants; of those,twenty three vascular plants and six to fifteen…

Subject of study: The subject of study is the formation of the Hawaiian archipelago. The island chain is comprised of a string of volcanic islands, seamounts of igneous rock of which the largest, Hawaii, reaches from its base on the ocean floor to rise above the ocean to rival the height of the tallest mountain, Mt. Everest. The smaller and extinct volcanos of the Hawaiian chain are located at successively greater distances from the currently active volcano and younger, Kilauea on the largest…

Today in Hawaii, there are three active volcanoes, two on the Big Island, the Maunaloa and the Kilauea and the Loihi that is located underwater a little ways off the Big Island. There are seven major volcanoes in Hawaii to this day, but there are countless others throughout the islands. The seven major volcanoes include Haleakala on Maui, the Maunaloa, Kilauea, Mauna Kea, Loihi, Diamond Head, and the Kohala. The last big Hawaiian volcano eruption was in 1801, but the Maunaloa last erupted in…