Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts, shooting lava 330ft from its crater | Hawaii
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano continued to explode on Tuesday and fired lava 330 ft (100 meters) from the peak crater to the sky.
Volcano’s current explosion began since December 2024, the 32. So far, all Lava, which has been obtained from this explosion, is located in the summit crater in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
After midnight, Lava appeared from the northern ventilation in the halemaʻumaʻu crater. US geology research, ventilation lava fountains began to shoot at 6.35 in the morning, he said. In the middle of the morning, it exploded from the southern ventilation of the crater and a third ventilation.
Ken Hon, a scientist responsible for the Hawaii Volcano Observatory, takes about 5 cubic meters per second (3.8 cubic meters) magma per second of a lower magma room under Halemaʻumaʻu crate. This blows the room like a balloon and forces the magma to a upper room. From there, it is pushed from the cracks on the ground.
Magma has been using the same path to rise to the surface since December and makes the first version and subsequent sections part of the same explosion.
Many of them had lava in some cases that risen to more air than 300 meters (300 meters). The fountains are partially produced, because the magma holding the released gases as they rise, travels to the surface with narrow, pipe -like ventilation ways.
The expanding magma supply is limited to a heavier magma throwing the gas at the end of the previous section. Eventually, enough new magma accumulates to force the newspaper, and the magma jumps out of a champagne bottle rinsed before the explosion of mushrooms.
Kilauea is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. Hawaii is located on Hawaii Island, the largest of its archipelago. The largest city of the state is about 200 miles (320 km) south of Honolulu, Honolulu.
This is the fourth year in the 200 years Kilauea’nın repeated sections of lava fountains hit the air. There was more episodes that Kilauea watched this model for the last time: the explosion, which started in 1983, started with 44 session shooting fountains. However, they spread for three years. And the fountains appeared in a remote area, so there was a few to watch.
The other two occurred in 1959 and 1969.
Scientists do not know how to end or change the existing explosion. In 1983, Magma created enough pressure because Kulauea opened a lower height and continuously lava infiltration instead of making periodically shooting from a higher height. The explosion continued in various ways for thirty years and ended in 2018.
Something similar can be again. Or the existing explosion may stand at the summit if the magma supply supplier replaces.
Scientists can predict a few days ago, which may occur with the help of sensors around Volcano, which shows when lava, magma is inflated or extinguished, which detects earthquakes and small changes in the angle of the floor.
“Our business is like being an ant that creeps on a elephant trying to understand how the elephant works,” Hon said.
Lava fountains have recently been shorter. Steve Lundblad, a professor of geology at Hawaii University in Hilo, said that the ventilation may have expanded and leave the melted rock less pressure.
“We will still make great explosions,” he said. “They will not only be wider and so high.”
