say eruption could end soon Scientists lowered the alert level for the Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii's Big Island from a warning to a watch on Saturday and said the mountain's first eruption in ...

When Hawaii’s expansive Mauna Loa volcano erupted in 1935, it sent serpents of red-hot liquid rock slithering toward the town of Hilo, then home to 16,000 residents. Normally, during eruptions ...

The Mauna Loa Observatory, located on the northern flank of the Mauna Loa volcano, is regarded as the birthplace of global CO₂ monitoring. Station staff in Hilo regularly travel between the town ...

As it cooled, lava near the Fagradalsfjall volcano took on a bumpy appearance. Trusdell recalls that within 24 hours of the last Mauna Loa eruption in 1984, plane tickets to the Island of Hawaii ...

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