An ‘a‘ā lava flow on the northeast flank of Mauna Loa. This lava flow is several meters thick and moving to the northeast. 'A'ā flows have a rough rubbly surface composed of broken lava ...

Officials told residents to be ready to evacuate if lava flows start heading toward populated areas. Many now living in the area weren’t around when Mauna Loa last erupted 38 years ago.

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Watch: World's largest volcano erupts for first time since 1984 The world's largest active volcano, Hawaii's Mauna Loa, has erupted for the first time in almost 40 years. The lava flow is mostly ...

Mauna Loa was still erupting Thursday morning, but the lava that was feeding the flow heading toward the crucial road has been cut off, likely because of a reduced production rate, said David ...

Unlike many volcanoes, Mauna Loa usually does not produce really explosive eruptions, in which lava shoots into the air along with plumes of ash and gas. Instead, the lava flows at a fairly slow ...

(USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory via AP) Update: On Monday, the eruption moved into Mauna Loa’s Northeast Rift Zone and several fissures erupted with fountains of lava, sending flows running ...

Access to the Mauna Loa Observatory could be restored by April, more than two years after the eruption of its namesake volcano cut it off from the rest of the island. The National Oceanic and ...

Because the flow has favored the northeast rift zone, officials expect the eruption activity to continue in that area and not the southwest rift zone. Mauna Loa lava coming from 3 fissures, not ...

Walls. Over the decades, people have tried all of them to stanch the flow of lava from Hawaii’s volcanoes as it lumbered toward roads, homes and infrastructure. Now Mauna Loa — the world’s ...

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