The collapse volume at the summit nearly matched the effused lava volume on the rift zone. In this regard, 1868 was a little ...

March 27 marks the anniversary of the onset of Mauna Loa’s dramatic 1868 eruption, when lava flows from the Southwest Rift Zone severely impacted the Ka‘u district. However, this may not have been the ...

When magma moves into the rift zone of a Hawaiian volcano, there is understandably a lot of excitement and apprehension. How ...

Magma moves through Hawaiian rift zones as dikes, which are tabular sheets of magma that move laterally and vertically ...

Still, there seems to be enough evidence that some sort of collapse occurred at Mauna Loa’s summit in 1868, which remains notable as the only such event in the volcano’s documented history.

Geologists say Hawaii's Kilauea volcano shot lava as high as 1,000 feet into the air during its most recent eruptive episode ...

Kilauea and Mauna Loa each have two major rift zones that radiate away from the volcano summits, and rift zone eruptions are common. Mauna Loa’s 2022 eruption, and Kilauea’s 1983–2018 Pu‘u ...

The film explores the cultural significance of the volcanoes, particularly the reverence for Pele, the fire goddess. It details the physical characteristics of the eruptions, including lava ...

Once a week or so, one of them takes a short helicopter ride to the northern slope of the Mauna Loa volcano – necessary because in 2022 an eruption buried more than a mile of the road in 30 feet ...