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HAWAII'S KILAUEA VOLCANOGeologists have detected a swarm of earthquakes at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, though it was not erupting.□ ABOUT :-
◇ Kilauea is about
200 miles south of
Honolulu, on the
Big Island of Hawaii.
It is one of the world’s most
active volcanoes, having erupted
34 times since 1952. ◇ In Hawaiian tradition,
Kilauea is home to the
volcano goddess Pele.
◇ From 1983 to 2018, it erupted almost continuously, in some cases
sending streams of lava that covered
farms and
homes.
◇ At the end of this decades-long eruption,
Kilauea spewed lava from vents in a
residential neighborhood on its
eastern flank and destroyed more than 700 homes.
◇ In December, Kilauea erupted at the
crater, creating a lake with enough lava to fill
10 Hoover dams. That eruption
ended in May.
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