March 27 marks the anniversary of the onset of Mauna Loa’s dramatic 1868 eruption, when lava flows from the Southwest Rift ...

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 ...

The hazards attached to the eruption of Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano appear to be mostly under control — promising news for volcanologists, who have been waiting decades for an opportunity to ...

Hawaii's Mauna Loa and Kilauea are both shield volcanoes ... lava fountains or oozes from cracks in the ground. The lava in these types of volcanoes doesn't contain much dissolved gas, so it ...

From the gentle slopes of shield volcanoes to the towering stratovolcanoes, and the underwater peaks of submarine volcanoes, ...

say eruption could end soon Scientists lowered the alert level for the Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii's Big Island from a warning to a watch on Saturday and said the mountain's first eruption in ...

By Austyn Gaffney On the flanks of the largest active volcano on Earth, the Mauna Loa Observatory tracks the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that are warming the planet, and has been ...

Composite volcanoes are the most common type of volcano ... and their runnier lava spreads and hardens over a wider area. Mauna Loa in Hawaii is an example of a shield volcano.

Mauna Loa last erupted in late 2022. It’s one of five volcanoes that make up the Big ... Hawaiian Islands on the Earth’s surface — a type of earthquake that occurs occasionally in the ...

The observatory, established in 1956 on the northern flank of the Mauna Loa volcano, is recognized as the birthplace of global carbon dioxide monitoring and maintains the world’s longest record ...