The Great Mauna Loa
Seagulls flying in the sky on top of the golden sandy beach. Palm trees stand tall and strong. This is Hawaii, home to the great Mauna Loa. Mauna Loa is the largest volcano on earth. It is also one of the five volcanoes that created the beautiful island known as Hawaii. This shield volcano is one of the most active volcanoes in the world! The name Mauna Loa means “Long Mountain” in Hawaiian. Whenever this giant volcano erupts, it's usually extremely hazardous, threatening its surroundings. Mauna Loa may be very large and dangerous, but it is quite fascinating!
What Type of Volcano is Mauna Loa? According to www.volcanodiscovery.com, the great Mauna Loa is a basaltic
…show more content…
According to Christine Webster, the author of “Natural Wonders: Mauna Loa”, 98% of Mauna Loa’s surface is hardened lava flows that are less than 10,000 years old! Another fact from westhawaiitoday.com is that Mauna Loa pumps 12 million cubic meters of lava per day, which is a giant amount! Something else that is important to know is that over the past 3,000 years, Mauna Loa erupted every six years! Mauna Loa has erupted 33 times since 1843! Even though the Mauna Loa is extremely active, and can cause lots of damage, the beauty of this volcano attracts many visitors from all around the …show more content…
Right next to you is one of Hawaii’s famous coconuts. You are at a beach in Hawaii. This is the home of the great Mauna Loa. Next time you visit Hawaii, be sure to check out this magnificent volcano.
Bibliography:
Volcano Discovery, “Mauna Loa Volcano”, n.p., n.pag., Website, 10-9-17
Christine Webster, “Mauna Loa”, Natural Wonders, Weigl Publishers 05-01-03, All pages, Book, 10-12-17
Caitlin Kelly, “Information on the Mauna Loa Volcano In Hawaii”, n.p., n.pag., Website, 10-10-17
Geologic Hazards, “Landslides, Tsunamis, Volcanoes”, n.p., n.pag., Website, 10-12-17
Weebly, “10 Fun Facts on the Mauna Loa”, n.p., n.pag., Website, 10-12-17
West Hawaii Today, “Mauna Loa Facts”, Oahu Publications, n.pag., Website,
Mauna Loa is considered a “shield volcano” meaning its eruption are as violent as they could be, however because of its enormous size, it will still be a reckoning, like journalist James Cave says, “Of the five active volcanoes in Hawaii, only the Kilauea and Loihi volcanoes have been quietly erupting consistently for decades. But Mauna Loa is seen as the big threat there. What Kilauea erupts in one day, Mauna Loa has erupted in 20 minutes, as it did in 1984. It came way too close to destroying Hilo, where more than 35,000 people lived at the
The west coast of North America has been tectonically and volcanically active for billions of years. The Sierra Nevada Mountains in eastern California were born of volcanoes, and magma has been erupting in the Long Valley to the east of the mountains for over three million years (Bailey, et. al., 1989). However, the climactic eruption of the region occurred relatively recently in the region's geologic history. About 760,000 years ago, a huge explosion of magma warped the Eastern Sierra into the landscape that exists today. The eruption depleted a massive magma chamber below the earth's surface so that the ceiling of the chamber imploded, forming what is now known as
Mauna Kea is currently the tallest mountain in the Hawaiian Chain. 4,205 meters above sea level, Mauna Kea is located on the island of Hawaii. It is the second largest surface that comprises of the five volcanoes on Mauna Kea. With Mauna Kea being the largest Mountain in the Hawaiian chain, it is a popular location to look into the galaxies, to find the origin of life.
Have you ever wanted to see what a Lava bed Looks like, Well I do there is a park that is called Yosemite national park that has a monument of a lava bed the park has 130,000 visitors each year the lava bed is what attracts about 4 million people annually.
Teens all around Hawai’i are very very passionate about Mauna Kea because it has long lasting history as the biggest mountain and is sacerd to hawaiian’s and they want to protect it from change. Mauna Kea is a dormant volcano on the island of Hawai’i, it has the highest point in the State of Hawai’i, as well as being the tallest mountain in the world when measured from base to summit. I am a 15 year old Sophomore at Konawaena High School.
Roughly seventy million years of volcanism, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, displays a fascinating world of biological diversity, rich, distinct Hawaiian culture, and past history. The park is located on the Island of Hawaii, 96 miles from Kailua-Kona and 30 miles from Hilo. It was established in August of 1916 as Hawaii National Park, and on 22 Sep 1961, it was renamed Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The park encompasses 230,000 acres and ranges from sea level to the summit of Mauna Loa at 13,677 feet, the world’s largest volcano. It is also home to the world’s most active volcano, Kilauea, which offers scientists insights on the birth of the Hawaiian Islands and features dramatic volcanic landscapes. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park was established
The state of Hawaii is composed of 132 islands, reefs and shoals that extend for over 1500 miles across the central North Pacific Ocean from the "Big Island" of Hawaii to midway and Kure Atolls. The eight main islands of Hawaiian Archipelago include Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Nihau and Kahoolawe (listed in order of size) which extend for only 350 miles at the south-eastern end of the volcanic mountain chain. Hawaii includes some of the earth’s largest mountains, rising from oceanic depths of greater than 18,000 feet to a height above sea level of nearly 14,000 feet. Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa on the Big Island are volcanic mountains with a total relief of 32,000 feet. The entire Island of
Mauna Loa: The Japanese market is its biggest export market, with average annual sales invoiced in yen to Japanese customers of ¥1,200,000,000. At the present exchange rate of ¥125/$ this is equivalent to $9,600,000. Sales are relatively equally distributed during the year. They show up as a ¥250,000,000 account receivable on Mauna Loa’s balance sheet. Credit terms to each customer allow for 60 days before payment is due. Monthly cash collections are typically ¥100,000,000. Mauna Loa would like to hedge its yen receipts, but it has too many customers and transactions tomake it practical to sell each receivable forward. It does not want to use options because they are considered to be too expensive for this particular purpose. Therefore, they
Kilauea is a volcano in the Hawaiian Islands it is one of the five shield volcanoes in the Hawaiian language Kilauea means spewing or spreading. Mt St. Helens is an active stratovolcano in Washington it is named after British diplomat lord st Helens.
In June 1783 Laki erupted explosively killing 25% of the population in Iceland (which is where its located) and 50% of livestock. Laki’s last eruption was in 1783 which lasted an eight month period between 1783-1784 that was about 233 years ago when it erupted 14 cubic km of lava and tephra which means types of materials that are erupted from a crater or volcanic vent an then depostited in to the air. Laki Volcano is near Eldgja and the village of kirkjubaejarklaustur, the two plates that made Iceland were the Eurasian plate and the North American plate which is now the surface of Laki. Its also classified by it’s shape which is caldera An interesting fact about “Laki” is that Lakagigar is the correct name as Laki mountain didn’t actually erupt,
Kilauea is one of the most active volcanoes on Earth, and it is the youngest. Kilauea stands just under 4,200 feet tall above sea level at its highest point.
Also like it says in the article on the slopes of Mauna Loa, Hawaii Island, “The road rises from sea level to over 4,000 feet and is partly within the boundary of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park” So you really never know what volcanoes can cause. Some people say volcanoes aren’t really that bad because the volcano in Italy has only erupted 2 times in 10,000 years. But those two eruptions were major and caused thousands and thousands of people to do die.
Yasur volcano sends up a tremendous explosion of lava and emits a boom so loud that it can be heard from far away.Some have nicknamed it the world's friendliest volcano, although its brutality and occasionally dangerous eruptions of lava and gas would seem to defy that description.Vanuatu President Baldwin Lonsdale says that Yasur volcano has become a popular tourist attraction.Yoram Teitler, a geologist who was a research fellow at the University of Western Australia, said that the volcano, which has been active for hundreds of years, is constantly bubbling, with larger eruptions coming once or twice an hour.Observers can stand about 500 feet from the crater floor. Kelson Hosea, who owns some rental properties near the base of Yasur, said
Essentially, the key fact that makes the islands of Hawaii so unique and worthy of studying is that nearly the entire mountain range is built entirely by volcanic activity and each island is the top of an enormous volcanic mountain. These exceptional qualities fuel the study of how the islands themselves were created, in order to answer the curiosities behind the composition of some of the most extravagant volcanoes in the world.
Volcanoes are extremely interesting, during the past few weeks my classmates and I have been observing zone that volcanoes are located in. My zone was zone two. Zone two is location was on the South American plate, Caribbean plate, and some of the North American plate. Overall my zone was active. Everyday there was at least one volcano active. The first few days of observing the volcanoes were fairly active. One erupting volcano that I recorded on my chart was the volcano Popocatepetl. This volcano is located in Mexico on the North American Plate. I recorded that the volcano was erupting on December 5th, 2016. This is one of the many erupting volcano that occurred on the first few days of monitoring. After a few day the eruption rate did