• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1994-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Over the last several million years the Hawaiian Islands have been built of successive lava flows. They are the most recent additions in a long line of volcanoes that extends up the intersection...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1994-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Fewer than one hundred people have been killed by eruptions in the recorded history of Hawaii, and only one death has occurred in the 20th Century. However, the lava flows are highly destructive...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1994-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

At dawn on June 15, 1991, a cataclysmic eruption began with a tremendous explosion that destroyed ten deserted villages. This eruption deposited approximately 5 to 7 km3 of volcanic fragments in...

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