{"id":9419,"date":"2018-06-27T18:44:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T17:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ounews.co\/?p=9419"},"modified":"2018-06-27T18:44:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T17:44:22","slug":"is-there-a-new-volcano-on-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/science-mct\/science-environment\/is-there-a-new-volcano-on-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there a new volcano on Hawaii?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kilauea, the most active volcano on Hawaii, has been in continual eruption<\/a> since 1983. It entered a new phase in early May when fractures along a rift on the eastern side of the volcano opened during a series of earthquakes \u2013 some of which became volcanic fissures from which lava was erupted.<\/p>\n

These fissures allowed magma that had been ponded in a lava summit lake to drain onto the ground surface as lava flows<\/a> lower down the mountain. This was close to a residential subdivision known as Leilani Estates, where a new volcanic cone has since developed.<\/p>\n

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The lava lake in Kilauea\u2019s summit crater (Halemaumau) on March 19 2018.<\/span>
\nUS Geological Survey<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Kilauea is buttressed on its north-west side by the enormous mass of Mauna Loa volcano<\/a>, but its south-east slopes face the ocean and are unsupported. The magma from beneath the volcano usually erupts from the summit of the volcano, and there was a spectacular lava lake there in March. However two rift zones (areas where the volcano is splitting apart), extending east and south-west from the summit, can make it possible for lava to erupts from Kilauea\u2019s flanks too.<\/p>\n