Kilauea

a crater on the E side of Mauna Loa volcano, on SE Hawaii Island: the world's largest active crater. Height: 1247 m (4090 ft.). Width: 3 km (2 miles)

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Kilauea

an active volcano on the island of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. Altitude, 1,247 m. The gently sloping shield-shaped cone of Kilauea ends in a caldera 4.5 km in diameter and more than 230 m deep, in which the lava caldron of Halemaumau is located. Halemaumau is covered with a layer of solidified lava. Fountains of molten lava of basic composition erupt from cracks in the lava crust. The last significant eruptions occurred in 1952, 1954, and 1955.

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Still, scientists are monitoring Kilauea's activity every day.

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Hawaii [USA], July 25 ( ANI ): The Kilauea volcano may continue to spew lava for a long time, say the geologists monitoring the eruption of the volcano.

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The latest estimate of property losses from Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, far surpasses the 215 structures consumed by lava during an earlier eruption cycle that began in 1983 and continued nearly nonstop over three decades.

Rivers of lava destroy 600 homes on Hawaii's Big Island

This question was asked to the US Geological Survey (USGS) department by Jay Furr from Vermont, who was anxious to discover if roasting marshmallows on the vents of the Kilauea Volcano erupted in Hawaii will be safe or poisonous.

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Lava flows are seen entering the sea along the coastline during ongoing eruptions of the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii

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