March 27 marks the anniversary of the onset of Mauna Loa’s dramatic 1868 eruption, when lava flows from the Southwest Rift ...
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The largest of the state's six active volcanoes is Mauna Loa, which is also on the Big Island and erupted in 2022. This photo provided by Janice Wei shows Candi Hololio Johnson, left, and Kim ...
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 ...
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.