Hawaii volcano breaks eruption record
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Mayon’s lava flows just crossed 132 straight days — the longest continuous eruption in the volcano’s recorded history, with roughly 290,000 Filipinos still displaced
Roughly 290,000 Filipinos remain unable to return home as Mayon Volcano’s lava flows have now persisted for 132 consecutive days, a stretch that exceeds any continuous eruption in the volcano’s recorded history.
Footage released from United States Geological Survey captured a whirlwind, known in Hawaiian as a puahiohio, forming over Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano on June 1. Scientists said heat rising from recent lava flows likely helped create the rare atmospheric phenomenon.
The South Pacific blast may have consumed its own methane — but using this idea against the greenhouse gas is controversial.
For a split second, a fireball outshone the rivers of molten lava flowing from the Philippines’ most active volcano.
A viral video of a meteor darting past an erupting Philippine volcano sent the internet into an alien frenzy after an unknown object was seen rising from the earth after impact — but a renowned scientist says there’s a perfectly logical explanation.
The on-and-off eruption of Hawaii ’s Kilauea volcano broke a record Monday with the number of periods it has produced fountains of lava since it began erupting in December 2024, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said.