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MAUNA LOA
- Location- Hawaii
- Type of volcano- Shield Volcano
- Elevation-13,678
- Plate tectonics- The hot spot that formed hawaii formed this volcano
- Historic Eruptions- Mauna Loa has erupted 39 times since 1832
- Most Recent Eruption- March 1984
- Hazards From Volcanoes- lava flows
- Current Status- Current Volcano Alert Level: NORMALtephra (airborne lava fragments)
- volcanic gases
- explosive eruptions
- ground cracks and settling
- Myths/Legends- hawaiian legends say that volcano goddess Pele was driven from her home by her angry older sister, Na-maka-o-kaha’i because Pele had seduced her husband. Every time Pele would thrust her digging stick into the earth to dig a pit for a new home, Na-maka-o-kaha’i, goddess of water and the sea, would flood the pits. Pele eventually landed on the Big Island, where she made Mauna Loa her new home. Literally meaning “Long Mountain” in the Hawaiian language, Mauna Loa was so tall that even Pele’s sister could not send the ocean’s waves high enough on Mauna Loa to drown Pele’s fires. So Pele established her home on its slopes.
- "Long Mountain" in Hawaiian
- its last eruption was in 1984.
- there were more than 350 "long-period" earthquakes beneath Mauna Loa’s summit
- At 60 miles long and 30 miles wide, it makes up half of the entire island.
- The volcano has been erupting for at least 100,000 years (possibly more) from a primary volcanic center that is presently manifested by Moku'aweoweo crater at the mountain's summit.
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