Mauna Loa

2022 - 11 - 29

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Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano begins eruption, alert level raised (Reuters)

An eruption began in the summit caldera of Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, on Sunday night, the U.S. Geological Service's (USGS) ...

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Hawaii's Mauna Loa starts to erupt, sending ash nearby (Terrace Standard)

The U.S. Geological Survey warned the island's 200,000 residents that an eruption of Mauna Loa “can be very dynamic, and the location and advance of lava flows ...

Mauna Loa Volcano Eruption Update (Hawaii Tourism Authority)

The situation is being closely monitored around the clock by scientists from the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and Hawai'i Emergency Management Agency, which are ...

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Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the world's biggest active volcano, erupts after ... (KBIA)

The mountain, which is taller than Mount Everest measured from seafloor to summit, erupted Sunday. Its lava appears to be contained, but scientists say the ...

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Mauna Loa: World's largest active volcano erupts in Hawaii (BBC News)

"Based on past events, the early stages of a Mauna Loa eruption can be very dynamic and the location and advance of lava flows can change rapidly," the USGS ...

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World's biggest volcano, Hawaii's Mauna Loa, erupts for first time in ... (The Straits Times)

“If the eruptive vents migrate outside its walls, lava flows may move rapidly downslope,” according to the USGS. The agency said the Hawaiian Volcano ...

DLNR News Release-Mauna Loa Access Closed, Nov. 28, 2022 (David Y. Ige | Newsroom)

(HILO) – Periodically, this afternoon when clouds hugging the summit of the world's largest volcano lifted, you could spot a field of lava on the ...

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Mauna Loa, the world's largest volcano, is erupting. Here's why and ... (The Washington Post)

For the first time in a generation, lava began flowing from Mauna Loa at the heart of Hawaii's Big Island late Sunday. No one knows when it will stop, ...

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Mauna Loa Eruption Update: Lava Starts To Flow And Put On A Show (Forbes)

On Monday afternoon, Hawaii Time, the eruption moved into the northeast Rift Zone adjacent to the summit, where lava began pouring forth from a handful of ...

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Mauna Loa Eruption Teaches Us More About Volcanoes , Says SU ... (Syracuse University News)

The largest active volcano on Earth erupted Monday. Mauna Loa is one of at least three large 'shield volcanos' that overlap one another on the Big Island of ...

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Here's what you need to know about the eruption of Hawaii's Mauna ... (PBS NewsHour)

Mauna Loa is spewing sulfur dioxide and other volcanic gases. They form volcanic smog, or vog, when they mix with vapor, oxygen and dust in sunlight.

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Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano is erupting. What do you need to know? (The Guardian)

Lava, volcanic gas and smog are the main hazards from eruption of the world's largest active volcano.

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As Mauna Loa Erupts, Officials Warn of Air Hazards (The New York Times)

Some residents chose to stay in a shelter after the volcanic eruption on the Big Island of Hawaii. There were no reports of mandatory evacuations.

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Hawaii's Mauna Loa Eruption Is a Gift for Science (The Atlantic)

Volcanologists have the first opportunity in nearly four decades to examine and measure an event of this magnitude at the largest volcano in the world.

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Factbox: Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano erupts (Reuters)

Hawaii's Mauna Loa began erupting on Nov. 27 for the first time in nearly four decades. Here are some facts about the volcano:

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Mauna Loa eruption interrupts key record of atmospheric CO2 (New Scientist)

The Mauna Loa Observatory has kept a nearly uninterrupted record of atmospheric carbon dioxide for more than 60 years, but a volcanic eruption has cut off ...

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Mauna Loa eruption halts key atmospheric measurements (The Washington Post)

It's a big eruption, and it's in a bad place,” geoscientist Ralph Keeling says of the impact on long-running monitoring of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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Mauna Loa eruption disrupts critical climate tool used to measure ... (CNN)

The longest-running climate equipment used to measure carbon dioxide levels in the Earth's atmosphere lost power Monday evening and is currently not ...

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