When magma moves into the rift zone of a Hawaiian volcano, there is understandably a lot of excitement and apprehension. How ...

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 eruption is the sixth recorded at Kilauea's summit since 2020. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park encompasses the summits of two of the world's most active volcanoes: Kilauea and Mauna Loa.

Magma moves through Hawaiian rift zones as dikes, which are tabular sheets of magma that move laterally and vertically ...

The collapse volume at the summit nearly matched the effused lava volume on the rift zone. In this regard, 1868 was a little ...

But even long after the activity stops — regardless ... radiate away from the volcano summits, and rift zone eruptions are common. Mauna Loa’s 2022 eruption, and Kilauea’s 1983–2018 ...