World’s largest lively volcano on island visited by tens of millions ‘will erupt once more’

Mauna Loa is the world’s largest lively volcano and it’s tipped to “erupt again” after spewing lava and ash into the sky for 12 days in November.

It covers half of Hawaii’s Big Island and makes up a part of a sequence of 5 volcanoes within the US state.

Its eruption final yr was the primary time it had erupted since 1984.

But fairly than sending the volcano into extinction, like what occurred after Mount St. Helens exploded, Mauna Loa stayed lively.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) confirmed on a ceaselessly requested questions web page on its web site: “Yes, Mauna Loa is active and it will erupt again.”

The volcano has erupted over 34 instances since its first well-documented eruption with intervals ranging between months and many years.

The 13,000-foot-high volcano eruption in November didn’t threaten communities this time because the lava circulate pointed in one other route. 

But there have been considerations that Mauna Loa would set off one of many island’s different volcanoes.

Mauna Loa’s neighbouring volcanos are between 20 and 55 miles away from the supervolcano.

Mauna Loa isn’t a civilisation-destroying beast just like the supervolcano beneath Yellowstone National Park, additionally within the US.

Unlike Yellowstone, the Hawaii volcano’s eruptions aren’t explosive and wouldn’t ship ash hundreds of miles into the air.

Rajeev Nair, a University of Calgary earth science professor, advised Newsweek: “Generally there is no concern of the mountain top blowing off and affecting communities or burial of communities with thick piles of ash like the AD78 Mt. Vesuvius eruption.”