Since the Kilauea volcano
first erupted in Leilani Estates in Hawaii on May the 3rd, it has spread more than four billion
cubic feet of lava on Hawaii’s biggest island. That’s roughly 30 billion
gallons of lava that have made new land and forever changed the shape of the
island.
The eruption is in a
historically active volcanic area, known as the Lower East Rift Zone, where the
landscape has been built and shaped by hundreds of centuries of lava flow. New
ground formed by eruptions in the 1950s and 1960s is still visibly barren.
The massive lava flow from Fissure 8 was spotted entering the ocean beyond what was once Kapoho Bay by a satellite on June 7.
A plume of vry toxic volcanic
lava haze, called laze, stretched for the miles. The time lapse image below shows
how lava consumed trees, buildings and part of a geothermal power plant over a
week at the end of May.
The current eruption burst
through the ground more than a month ago in the Leilani Estates neighborhood,
where fissures ripped open and lava destroyed homes and wiped out several
square miles of buildings and property.
More than 20 fissures are
linked to this eruption, but Fissure 8 has been the most active and
destructive, spewing a fountain of lava more than 200 feet in the air and
feeding the flow that continues to create new land for six miles, east of the
Vacationland neighborhood and the now lava-filled Kapoho Bay.
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