Sunday, February 13, 2011

The volcanoes in Hawaii are safe.

The volcanoes of Hawaii are considered safe by geologists, due to the fact that they’re always venting. A volcano that holds all of that pressure inside is like a natural time bomb, but the Hawaiian variety have no problem belching out hot magma and smoke from time to time. 
fast-lava-flow
Credit:http://www.bigislandhawaii.org/volcanoes

But there was a PBS documentary which identified a volcano in Hawaii, Kilauea,as the most dangerous volcano in the world. Eruptions of Kilauea are very amazing and spectacular, although relatively few people have been killed by its eruptions, as it is ussually possible to get out of its way.

Credit: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/users/menke/talks/dangerous_volcano_files/dangerous_volcano.html

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