Hawaii Lava

Kilauea is considered the most active active volcano not only of the island of Hawaii, but of the whole Earth. Awakening back in the 83rd year, to this day he continues to spew streams of red-hot rocks.

Professional athlete Alison Teal became the first girl who decided to arrange extreme surfing near an erupting volcano

The seething lava flows flow directly into the ocean, in the very place where the athlete decided to swim

Here you should be extremely careful and stay on the alert, because the speed with which the hot lava moves can be several meters per second, and its temperature fluctuates around 500-1200 ° C - this is more than enough to instantly weld alive

During a volcanic eruption, magma begins to be ejected from the bowels of the earth, which, during cooling and interaction with atmospheric gases, begins to change its properties and form lava

Volcanic material enters the earth's surface from the upper mantle, from a depth of up to 700 kilometers, where the centers of volcanic earthquakes are located

Kilauea rises 1,247 meters above sea level, and its base goes into the Pacific Ocean to a depth of about five kilometers

The top of the volcano has a huge round caldera, 3 × 4 kilometers in size. Inside is the active Halemaumau Crater with a lake of boiling lava; since 2008, it regularly throws pillars of volcanic gas into the sky

The volcano began to erupt with the onset of 1983. It was then, on January 3, that he woke up and no longer wanted to fall asleep again. Kilauea entered the phase of intense activity on March 6, 2011

According to local legends, Kilauea is the home of the Hawaiian goddess Pele volcanoes, it is here that she lives

In her honor, people named certain lava formations. Such, for example, as:

"Tears of Pele." It is chilled in air and frozen small drops of lava.

"Pele Hair" refers to the result of cooling in the wind of lava spray.

“Pele algae” - when the lava flows into the ocean, its bubbles cool and burst, forming “goddess algae”.

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