One volcano, Hawaii's Mount Kilauea, has long held the curiosity of scientists and those who have lived near it for thousands of years. A shield volcano, Kilauea is a low, sloping type of volcano ...

Poland described the volcano as "fascinating" but reassured that it "doesn't really pose a hazard". Axial Seamount is a shield volcano, similar to Mauna Loa, the world's most active volcano ...

But as a shield volcano, Kilauea doesn’t have explosive, Mt. St. Helens-type eruptions. Instead, it emits a steady stream of fluid lava that generally flows gently down the side of the mountain ...

Situated along the Juan de Fuca Ridge, a chain of undersea volcanoes extending between Oregon and Alaska, Axial Seamount is a young shield volcano - a broader volcano with a low profile.

A shield volcano’s eruptions are usually gentle and non-explosive ... volcano itself when the magma chamber below was emptied by an eruption. One of the most famous is Yellowstone in the United States ...

Axial Seamount is a shield volcano, similar to Mauna Loa((Image: Center for Environmental Visualisation - University Of Washington)) The Axial Seamount, notorious for its eruptions in 1998 ...