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Mount Kilauea Volcanic Eruption

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Mount Kilauea Volcanic Eruption

The United States of America is surprisingly one of the most active countries when it

comes to the eruption of volcanoes. However, the Mount Kilauea volcano is has been one of the

most active volcanoes in the USA in recent years thus posing a great danger to the communities

of Hawaii, the surrounding property and also the infrastructure. The Kilauea volcano has been

actively erupting with one of the major eruptions being in May 2018 when Kilauea’s

halema’uma’u crater outburst and the eruption went on for months (Underwood, 2019).

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Kilauea volcanic eruption of May 2018 is one of

the most dangerous eruptions that has taken place in the U.S. history, making about 1700 people

in Hawaii to be evacuated (News, 2019). The Halema’uma’u crater which was initially a lake of

bubbling lava on this day began to drain and this resulted in the creation of cracks which were a

red flag that an eruption would occur any time.

However, the major cause of the Halema’uma’u crater eruption on Mount Kilauea was

due to the sudden rise in the movement of energy in the earth's upper mantle which coincided

with an earthquake of about 6.9 in magnitude beneath the volcano (Underwood, 2019). This

resulted in the movement of magma southwards from the Halema’uma’u crater and as a result,

the slipping of a fault as a result of the movement of magma from the crater. As the magma

continued to move southwards from the Halema’uma’u crater, the crater floor continued to

subside. For this reason, as the magma gases tried to escape, they reacted with the underground

causing massive explosions of hot magma from the crater. Plumes of about 3000 feet erupted

from Mount Kilauea volcano which were some of the highest fountains of lava eruptions in

American history. Therefore, it was a combination of the earthquakes, with continuous seismic

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Running head: MOUNT KILAUEA VOLCANIC ERUPTION Mount Kilauea Volcanic Eruption Student’s Name Institution Year 1 MOUNT KILAUEA VOLCANIC ERUPTION 2 Mount Kilauea Volcanic Eruption The United States of America is surprisingly one of the most active countries when it comes to the eruption of volcanoes. However, the Mount Kilauea volcano is has been one of the most active volcanoes in the USA in recent years thus posing a great danger to the communities of Hawaii, the surrounding property and also the infrastructure. The Kilauea volcano has been actively erupting with one of the major eruptions being in May 2018 when Kilauea’s halema’uma’u crater outburst and the eruption went on for months (Underwood, 2019). According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Kilauea volcanic eruption of May 2018 is one of the most dangerous eruptions that has taken place in the U.S. history, making about 1700 people in Hawaii to be evacuated (News, 2019). The Halema’uma’u crater which was initially a lake of bubbling lava on this day began to drain and this resulted in the creation of cracks which were a red flag that an eruption would occur any time. However, the major cause of the Halema? ...
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