Kilauea ash (top) was deposited where the bloom occurred. Credit: W. Cheah.

Pele is the Hawaiian goddess of fire and volcanoes and revered as the divine creator of the Hawaiian Islands. Every year, people leave over 10,000 offerings at Pele’s shrine at Halemaʻumaʻu crater.

Hawaii, an archipelago in the tropics, sits 3,200 kilometres (2,000 miles) into the Pacific Ocean from the Americas.

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In this image provided by Mighty Earth, the head of Kwipalo family of Papua's Yei tribe, Vincen Kwipalo, 63, left, and his wife Alowisia Kwerkujai, 58, cut a sago tree to find sago grubs, at a ...

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Kilauea is one of six active volcanoes in Hawaii, including one that is submerged underwater. The largest is Mauna Loa, which is also on the Big Island and which erupted in 2022.