It is about kilauea volcano in Hawaii.

Kilauea has been erupting lava and ash since January 1983 from the east rift zone on the master(prenominal) island of Hawaii and is the most active volcano on cosmos (HCV). Kilauea is in the shield building stage. Most of Kilauea is located on a lower floor sea level. It is located over a hotspot in the Pacific plate. The summit of Kilauea is at 4,090 ft. The crater is nine miles in circumference and is one of the largest active craters on earth (New regular Encyclopedia). Kilauea is on the eastern slope of Mauna Loa, which is much bigger than Kilauea only if less active now.

The main island of Hawaii is growing in size every day as the lava flows push through into the oceanic and forms lava benches. The lava flows through lava tubes that dump out into the ocean at these lava benches. As the lava benches grow they sometimes clang. The collapses can be fairly beautiful or half the bench could collapse. If people dont obey the signs that word to stay off the bench and if it collapses while they are out there they will either die or be seriously injured as pieces of hardened lava are torpedo up and out of the water and go tens of meters inland to begin with hitting the ground along with scalding hot steam.



The benches can collapse at any point in time (USGS 2).

This extravasation has added a lot to the island but also has destroyed a lot. There has been a total of 102 sq. km. of land covered by the lava; 560 acres of new land have been added to the island, destroyed approx. xcl buildings including a 700 year old Hawaiian temple and a visitors center, and caused the highway to be closed because it covered 13km of the coastal...

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