Chunks of hardened lava — dubbed by sightseers as "lava bergs" — float in a river of lava.
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Normally cooling lava would stack up, creating a rocky shelf on which the lava settles called a lava delta.
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"Lava fountains are driven by rapidly ascending lava and gas," Babb said.
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This "pillow lava" -- spherical blobs of lava that cool from the outside in -- piles up and forms a steep underwater slope called a lava delta.
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When lava hits water, it creates smoke-like "laze," or lava and haze.
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Lava tubes are tunnels that form from lava flowing during long volcanic eruptions.
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Lava erupts from a fissure, surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped wall of hardened lava.
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Lava lakes A large amount of molten lava contained in a vent or crater.
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As lava flow piles upon lava flow, the Big Island grows taller and wider.
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Sure enough, lava started spattering from these fissures and lava flows covered the landscape.
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Rubble forms, stacks up, and lava mounds up over it creating a lava delta.
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Lava could enter the crater to form another lava lake, or it could react violently with the water and create explosions if the lava rapidly rises through the water.
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A river of red-hot lava is seen flowing through a channel of hardened lava.
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Since the mid-6900s, Kīlauea's eruptions have been typified by lava flows and lava lakes.
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And in addition to contact with lava or lava splatter, residents must also beware of laze, toxic gas filled with glass and acid that results when lava meets the ocean.
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The stream of lava formed in January when the Kamokuna lava delta collapsed into the sea.
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Some lava over the weekend began flowing into the ocean and generated plumes of lava haze.
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Broken lava fragments, such as those shown here, comprise the majority of Kilauea's undersea lava delta.
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And there's a character whose power seems to be vomiting lava; I've never seen prettier lava.
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Lava loss We all saw that video of lava taking out a Ford Mustang in Hawaii.
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Earlier this week, a lava flow stopped short of a geothermal power plant, and lava continues to pour into the ocean, producing so-called "laze," a combination of lava and haze.
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HAWAII VOLCANO: WHY KILAUEA&aposS LAVA IS CAUSING EERIE BLUE FLAMES Known as "laze" – a combination of the words "lava" and "haze," the plume occurs when molten lava flows into the ocean.
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"So the lava is boiling the sea, but the sea is also cooling the lava," he says.
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Most injuries related to lava occur when people walk on cooled lava and scrape themselves, Damby says.
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We have, however, attempted to divert lava flows in Hawaii by dropping explosives on active lava channels.
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In fact, the current lava eruptions in Puna are as hot as Hawaii&aposs lava will ever get.
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Insurance rates in lava zone 1 are often three times higher than the rates for lava zone 3.
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The fresher lava is hotter and tends to move faster than the older lava that was unleashed earlier.
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If all goes well, The Floor is Lava accurately singles out the actual floor to turn into lava.
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Jones: That's Bryan Katzel, vice president of product development at Schylling, the manufacturers of Lava brand lava lamps.
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Pilots did spot several imploded lava tubes, but their collapses were insufficient to block the flow of lava.
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According to the US Geological Survey, lava tubes are natural channels through which lava travels beneath the surface.
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Lava flowing in to the ocean can create "laze," a mash-up of lava and haze that occurs when hot lava hits the ocean, sending hydrochloric acid and volcanic glass particles into the air.
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HAWAII VOLCANO: KILAUEA LAVA SPEWS DEADLY &aposLAZE&apos PLUME CONTAINING TINY SHARDS OF GLASS Known as "laze" – a combination of the words "lava" and "haze," the plume occurs when molten lava flows into the ocean.
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As for the halt of flowing lava, one possibility, said Johanson, is that the lava reservoir beneath the park may have lost so much lava, it simply "depressurized," a bit like an air mattress deflating.
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The volcano was home to not one but two lava lakes, persistent pools of roiling lava, at the Halema'uma'u summit crater and at another vent of lava on the East Rift zone called Pu'u O'o.
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Lava deltas are dangerous volcanic features that form where lava enters the ocean and cools, building up new land.
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The two prevailing theories include eruptions, which spread lava flows over a large area, or overturning waves of lava.
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The lava even devastated a local freshwater lake earlier this week — the lava entered the lake at 10 a.m.
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More red and orange lava fountains emerged and lava reached the Pacific Ocean, presenting a new threat for residents.
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The lava traveled seven miles down these tubes, and by July 26, 2016, the lava had reached the ocean.
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"The lava fountains signified an increase in mass eruption rate, as lava was observed to be flowing more voluminously than before," it said, adding that lava flows had spread more than two miles from the crater.
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"Guests were surprised to see the lava fire hose lava still active," noted Kalapana Cultural Tours on its Facebook page.
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After an eruption, the lava flowed around the dunes, causing the island-like landmarks to remain after the lava cooled.
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Lava is nearing Kapoho Lava continued to advance toward Kapoho, an unincorporated community near the eastern coast, on Thursday morning.
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Still, the lava flow resulted in massive explosions, sometimes throwing cooling chunks of lava nearly 100 feet in the air.
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Some of Io's volcanoes spew lava dozens of miles into the sky; its surface is peppered by lakes of lava.
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CHOCOLATE LAVA GNOCCHI: The arguably strange Chocolate Lava Gnocchi proved to me that potato and chocolate simply don't go together.
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"The lava in the earth, the minerals in the lava, makes the taste of our pistachios different," Mr. Caudullo said.
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On the outskirts of Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park, gobs of hot lava ooze from a heaping mass of solidifying lava.
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The lava that is being fed through lava flows and tubes from the Pu'u O'o crater on the east rift of Kilauea has created a kilometer wide zone of lava flows (see above) reaching the Pacific Ocean.
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Lava flowing in to the ocean can create what's known as "laze," a mash-up of lava and haze that occurs when hot lava hits the ocean, sending hydrochloric acid and volcanic glass particles into the air.
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There is spattering (airborne chunks of lava) from fissures 15, 17, 43, 20, 21 and 22, as well as pahoehoe lava — smooth undulating or ropy masses of lava — flowing from fissures 17, 18 and 20, the HVO said.
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Lava from the Kilauea volcano continues to erupt from a fissure and forms a river of lava flowing down to Kapoho.
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"You need like one gallon of water per one square foot of lava to keep the lava at bay," Magno said.
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Known as "laze" – a combination of the words "lava" and "haze," the plume occurs when molten lava flows into the ocean.
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In one image he's surfing over a hot lava lake, in another he's using the lava to heat up a pizza.
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This mashup of "lava" and "haze" is the steam clouds that are produced when the hot lava hits the ocean water.
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Lava The most obvious threat of volcanic activity is magma bursting through the earth's surface and lava flowing toward residential neighborhoods.
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Lava fountains A stream of lava that sprays into the air because of gas bubbles forming and expanding in a volcano.
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Lava reaches geothermal plant area Relentless lava flow has now reached the Puna Geothermal Venture property, the civil defense agency said.
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"There are lava tubes on our property," he said referring to the natural tunnels underground that drain lava during an eruption.
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Photos showed the damage and red-hot chunks of lava on the boat operated by Lava Ocean Tours, which is one of just four companies that are permitted to take tours to view the lava entry into the water.
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Raw cell phone video of Hawaii lava flow A man films from the second story of his house as lava creeps closer.
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The lava also brews and steams inside a large lava lake, which sits inside a massive crater in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
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Turpin estimates he was about 250 yards from the lava flowing into the ocean when the lava bomb crashed through the roof.
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Turpin estimates he was about 20183 yards from the lava flowing into the ocean when the lava bomb crashed through the roof.
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As they are made up of loose blocks of lava amassed chaotically, lava deltas are very unstable and prone to collapse suddenly.
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There is where there used to be Halemaumau lava lake, one of only a few persistent active lava lakes known on Earth.
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The lava has added new land to the Big Island The lava has already physically changed the Big Island in several ways.
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The lava lake at the summit rose so high that it spilled over the top in late April, creating small lava flows.
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Contractors with experience removing lava flows said it can take months for the lava to harden and cool enough to remove safely.
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Whiteout conditions are also possible on the new lava field because of the steam produced by heavy rainfall on hot lava flows.
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On top of lava, ash clouds and plumes of deadly laze (lava and haze), officials are also warning about vog, or volcanic smog.
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Thermal map of fissure system and lava flowsImage: USGSKīlauea Lower East Rift Zone lava flows and fissures, June 14, 11:00 a.m. HST.
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Back on land, the team wondered how lava mixing with seawater might somehow produce nitrates, but by then the lava flow had ceased.
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Around 37 structures are already "lava locked," meaning homes are inaccessible, and people who do not evacuate may be trapped by lava flows.
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A tiny new island of lava formed off Hawaii's Big Island on the northernmost part of the ocean entry of lava from Fissure 8.
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Onlookers gather at the foot of the lava bed, as a lava shoots molten rock into the air, in the Leilani Estates near Pahoa.
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Video Earlier this week, a fast-moving lava flow burned down 12 homes while lava fountains shot up to 250 feet into the air.
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A separate lava flow from fissure 8 is also "advancing rapidly" towards an older lava flow heading towards the Puna Geothermal Venture access road.
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For over three months, the southeastern portion of Hawaii has been quaking and gushing lava, though the vigorously erupting lava recently took a pause.
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Researchers have also theorized that there were once channels of lava on Mars, and even lava tubes on the red planet, shaping its geology.
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Be sure to watch the webcams that watch the lava lake, including both a panorama cam of the lava and an infrared thermal cam.
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"The lava that flows into the ocean cools very quickly and it breaks apart and sends lava fragments flying into the air," Stovall said.
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Scientists say the characteristics of lava oozing from fissures in the ground has changed significantly as new magma mixes with decades-old stored lava.
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This lava, measured at over 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, is different than the lava that erupted at the outset of the activity, a month ago.
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The lava now beginning to erupt is dangerous, Klemetti said, as it's creating "a big lava fountain" that could then spill into nearby towns.
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The eruption appears to have produced some lava flows as well based on VIIRS images taken today (see below) The eruptions of Pavlof in 2013 and 2014 produced some impressive lava fountains and lava flows for weeks and ash plumes as high as yesterday's event.
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Scientists said a new lava delta has grown to 200 acres, while lava from Fissure 8 bursts 130 to 180 feet up in the air.
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"Lava pouring into the ocean from either surface flows or lava tubes cools rapidly, usually shattering into sand to block-size fragments," the USGS explains.
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Before Thursday&aposs eruption, the lava lake at the volcano&aposs summit crater dropped steadily as lava oozed out from cracks elsewhere on the volcano.
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Like a typical lava bomb, the chunk of molten rock was propelled into the air as hot lava from Kilauea poured into the Pacific Ocean.
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No lava was reported from any of the 15 vents but "additional outbreaks of lava are likely," the US Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said.
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No significant lava was reported from any of the vents but "additional outbreaks of lava are likely," the US Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said.
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Because of lava entering the ocean, the US Coast Guard enforced a Lava Entry Safety Zone Sunday for the navigable waters around the Kilauea Volcano.
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As the lava enters the ocean, a thin film of steam rapidly develops at the interface between molten lava and liquid water, keeping them separated.
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Ground is unstable at the site of recent lava outbursts, and the thickest lava flows will remain hot for weeks or even years, Neal said.
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As the lava flows, the top and sides of the stream harden, forming a tube in which the rest of the lava continues to flow.
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Although no significant lava flows have yet formed, additional outbreaks of lava, which can reach temperatures of about 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit (1,150 Celsius), were expected.
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"As the lava expands, so has the anxiety," she said, the low, jet-like sound of lava spouting from the ground audible in the distance.
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The "lava bomb" hit the roof of the Lava Ocean Tours vessel near the town of Kapoho, Hawaii&aposs Department of Land and Natural Resources said.
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This volcano, which would look much less horny if the lava was lava-colored, makes cleaning the inside of the microwave fun by spouting cleaning solution.
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A new lava viewing area was roped off on Monday, and authorities hope to have it open for more (and safer!) lava watching by midday today.
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At least 117 homes have already been taken by lava in the Lanipuna Gardens and Leilani Estates neighborhoods where lava surfaced more than a month ago.
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The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said lava did not flow more than 33 feet from the fissure and the fissure was no longer actively spewing lava Friday.
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Laze — a term combining the words "lava" and "haze" — is formed when molten lava, reaching temperatures of 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,093 Celsius), reacts with sea water.
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The lava is also 1,812 to 2,334 degrees Fahrenheit, with the higher end of that range about as hot as lava on Earth seems to get.
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HAWAII MAN DESCRIBES 'POWERFUL AND HOT' LAVA BOMB SNAPPING HIS LEG IN HALF The time-lapse shows a number of fissures spewing lava near Leilani Estates on the Big Island of Hawaii, the observatory said, adding that "lava also flowed into the ocean during" the time period.
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Hawaii's volcano problems won't quit As if lava and sulfur dioxide were not enough trouble after eruptions from the Kilauea volcano, residents on Hawaii's Big Island now have to worry about "laze," a mix of lava and haze that is formed when hot lava reaches the ocean.
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However after sundown, the team observed red lava fountains spewing from the crater into the atmosphere and hot lava flows streaming down the slopes of the volcano.
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What it's like to hike through a lava tube The lava lake on Mount Michael is 90 to 215 meters in diameter, wider than two football fields.
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Officials say that 23 people on the Lava Ocean Tours were injured when a "lava bomb" soaring from the Kilauea volcano crashed through the vessel's metal roof.
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David Ford rode near the lava flow in a different boat and said he could smell sulfur and hear a sizzle when the lava hit the water.
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HAWAII VOLCANO ACTIVITY PROMPTS NEW THREATS AS MAN SERIOUSLY INJURED FROM LAVA SPATTER The California native, however, also got too close to the lava on Mother's Day.
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The "man who stands to lose everything" theme also animates the two Icelandic shows Netflix has recently acquired: Case (Réttur, literally "court") and Lava Field (Hraunið, "lava").
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Lava shoots into the air Video posted on social media showed lava spewing several feet into the air from a new crack in a Leilani Estates street.
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An elderly man died near his home in Hawaii after falling into a lava tube — a cave made of lava — on his property, police announced on Wednesday.
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Image: Julie A. RathbunLoki, which Rathbun suspects is a large overturning lava lake (and sadly not an overturning lava cake), is predictable owing to its tremendous girth.
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Laze — a term combining the words "lava" and "haze" — is formed when erupting lava, which can reach 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,093 degrees Celsius), reacts with sea water.
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Three stranded in Kilauea, Hawaii lava zone are airlifted; cops cite 20153 others for loitering near lava BLOODY SUNDAY IN PORTLAND: Violence broke out in downtown Portland, Ore.
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Lava rock can even have a specific appearance and a unique collection of minerals that allow experts to infer a certain age or type of lava, Gregg said.
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They note the eruption includes fountains of lava shooting several hundred feet high, ash and toxic gases in the air and lava covering roads, electricity lines and neighborhoods.
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Lava cascaded off of cliffs on Hawaii's Big Island on Wednesday (July 27), marking the first time since 2013 that one of Kilauea's lava flows reached the ocean.
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Laze -- a mashup of "lava" and "haze" -- is a nasty product formed when hot lava hits the ocean, sending hydrochloric acid and volcanic glass particles into the air.
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Thick waves of fresh lava from fissure 22 and 7 -- which officials say are producing the largest amount of lava -- are blazing down a mound of volcanic rock.
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On May 2, the Halema'uma'u summit crater's lava lake — a persistent pool of bubbling lava inside the crater — began to drain, and cracks appeared in the rift zone.
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A "bright crater glow" at the summit crater indicates "the growth of a new lava dome and beginnings of lava flow towards the southern slopes," the agency said.
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Although no significant lava flows have yet formed, additional outbreaks of lava, which can reach temperatures of about 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit (1,150 Celsius), were expected, the agency said.
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Although no significant lava flows have yet formed, additional outbreaks of lava, which can reach temperatures of about 264,23 degrees Fahrenheit (1,150 Celsius), were expected, the agency said.
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As many photos from the lava sites have become popularized on social media, authorities are emphasizing the risks of visiting the rivers of molten lava, much less snapping selfies.
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Lava from Kilauea burst through the ground on May 3 in the residential neighborhoods of Leilani Estates and Lanipuna Gardens, with fissures spewing lava as high as 200 feet.
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Civil defense officials said a total of 40 structures have now been destroyed by the lava and several fissures were producing lava flows and spatter as the eruption intensified.
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The skirt that forms along the edge of the island looks like a river delta made of lava, and it gets bigger, and bigger, as the lava keeps flowing.
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U.S. Geological Survey scientist Wendy Stovall said Wednesday that lava erupting from a vent closest to Puna Geothermal Venture is shooting higher than lava coming out of other vents.
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The Civil Defense Agency said Sunday night two lava flows that entered the ocean formed a toxic steam cloud caused by a chemical reaction when the lava touches seawater.
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The lava haze, or "laze," extended as far as 15 miles (103 kilometers) west of where the lava gushed into the ocean on the Big Island&aposs southern coast.
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"If Mayotte is indeed still erupting fresh lava, it may be possible for us to witness some of the deepest new lava ever recorded using underwater submersibles," said Mitchell.
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One does wonder whether Apple is really dropping millions on titles like Hot Lava, a game about the floor being lava, but hey, that's an unimaginably wealthy company's prerogative.
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Moreover, because lava is pushing upwards, the rods probably wouldn't sink into a volcano, they'd just be pushed to the surface, turning the lava flow into a radioactive hellscape.
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Leave before lava traps you, authorities warn Authorities also were scrambling to warn residents about fast-moving lava that threatens to engulf more homes in the Leilani Estates community.
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And more lava What we're looking at: Lava has been erupting from new vents, or cracks, around the community of Leilani Estates -- east of the summit -- intermittently for days.
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That could happen because as lava continues to sink in a lake inside a Kilauea crater, an influx of groundwater could interact with the lava to create steam explosions.
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When the top layer of lava cools and hardens, it creates a cave that lava can flow through for months before it trains and hollows out, becoming a tube.
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"Water plus heat (from magma/lava) makes steam, and steam can expand tremendously, which can break up lava into small bits and hurl them into the air," Babb wrote.
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But the lava is moving so aggressively that shortly after the island was formed, it was swallowed up again by the lava flow, reattaching the island to the mainland.
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The direct threats to residents and first responders are the lava flow, which has created a 2,400-acre lava field and destroyed over 100 structures, and the volcanic gases.
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Hawaii Civil Defense said that Highway 132 has been being shut down between Lava Tree State Park to Four Corners, due to a "fast moving lava" flow approaching the highway.
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Some of the images of the eruption show a stream of lava coming from the New Southeast Crater while strombolian explosions threw lava bombs hundreds of meters from the vent.
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Let's check out some highlights: Hawai'i We almost saw new lava flows inside the Halema'uma'u Crater at Kilauea, as the lava lake was close to reaching its rim (see above).
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Photo of lava flows at the Deccan TrapsPhoto: Courtney SprainSolidified lava from ancient volcanoes, over a mile thick, covers a portion of west-central India nearly the size of Texas.
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NASA's Kepler mission spotted lava worlds such as Kepler-10b and Kepler-78b which closely orbit their stars and have blazing hot surface temperatures that rival lava flows on Earth.
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The past few weeks have seen increased lava flow and volcanic fissures that have caused mass evacuations, with fast-moving lava flows now threatening small towns in Puna and Pahoa.
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Often, the instant the water hit the lava, it exploded, sending a blazing blob about six feet into the air, and a few lava bombs as high as 15 feet.
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The massive fissure is several hundred yards long and has caused "lava fountaining, explosion of spatter bombs hundreds of feet into the air, and several advancing lava flow lobes moving generally northeast," the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said Footage of the 18th fissure, which opened on Monday morning, showed lava bubbling above trees.
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Bill Parecki, a realtor for Elite Pacific Properties, told BuzzFeed News that insurance rates in lava zone 1 are at least three times higher than the rates for lava zone 3, and said he's heard of residents with insurance rates of at least $5,000 a year for property in lava zone 1.
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The injured people were on a tour boat that shows visitors lava plunging into the ocean from the active Kilauea volcano that has been shooting lava for the past two months.
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Volcanoes can produce a host of lethal hazards, including lava flows, tsunamis, volcanic mudflows, avalanches, flying rocks and pyroclastic flow – a mix of hot lava fragments, ash pumice and volcanic ash.
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LAVA EXPLOSION NEAR HAWAII TOUR BOAT INJURES AT LEAST 23 The Coast Guard prohibits vessels from getting closer than 984 feet from where Kilauea volcano&aposs lava oozes into the sea.
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All images: David FordHawaii's Kilauea volcano has been slowly leaking lava onto the surface around it for over three decades now, but only rarely does that lava reach the island's cliffs.
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The lava haze, or "laze," from the plume spread as far as 15 miles (3003 kilometers) west of where the lava met the ocean on the Big Island&aposs southern coast.
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The "Floor is Lava" game (which some people just call "Hot Lava") has been around for so long, it's amazing no one's made a full video game out of it yet.
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Volcanic lava in Hawaii Smoldering flows of glowing red and crusty black lava have been consuming parts of Hawaii's Big Island since May 3, and residents just got more bad news.
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Three days after the bombing, the spatter cone around the main lava vent partially collapsed by natural processes and caused the main lava flow to cease movement, the paper's authors said.
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When hot lava hits the ocean, it can form a nasty product called laze -- a mashup of lava and haze -- and send hydrochloric acid and volcanic glass particles into the air.
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Blue flames join the lava light show People around the world have been transfixed by images of red and orange lava fountains oozing out of volcanic vents on Hawaii's Big Island.
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U.S. Geological Survey scientist Wendy Stovall told the Associated Press the lava erupting from a vent closest to Puna Geothermal Venture is shooting higher than lava coming out of other vents.
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Around 37 structures are "lava locked," meaning homes are inaccessible, and people who do not evacuate them may be hemmed in by 30-foot-high (9-meter-high) walls of lava.
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As lava crossed Highway 132, officials shut a stretch of road from Lava Tree State Park to Four Corners and told residents who had not evacuated to leave the area immediately.
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It will also eventually be able to navigate through so-called lunar lava tubes, which are tunnels beneath the surface of the moon thought to have once been filled with lava.
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The third-largest city in the country, with about 25,000 people, Hafnarfjordur is known as a fishing port and "the town in the lava," because of its many lava rock formations.
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As the lava moved, the part touching the air cooled and crusted over, resulting in lava tubes that made its passage to the ocean far more efficient, as veins channel blood.
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Because they can kill you – just like fake lava.
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" Mr. Costa's career changed direction after "Casa de Lava.
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As the volcano continues to spew lava, clouds of ash, and deadly laze, the U.S. Geological Survey has been providing constant updates on Twitter on the status on lava and ash clouds.
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But intrepid lava spectators are still finding ways to witness the action taking place at the ocean entry, which Epic Lava Tour company owner John Tarson describes as "absolutely stunning" right now.
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But that changes with Hot Lava (which some people just call "The Floor is Lava"), which has a full trailer out from Klei Entertainment, known for their 2013 survival game Don't Starve.
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But as that lava is getting cleared out, newer and hotter magma could be moving underground from the summit reservoir and replacing it, resulting in an eruption of hotter and runnier lava.
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The so-called lava bomb punctured the roof of a lava tour boat named Hot Shot on Monday morning in Kapoho Bay on Hawaii's Big Island, the Hawaii County Fire Department said.
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Threat level: The situation is highly dynamic, as lava continues to flow to the surface and the lava lake in the center of the crater sinks, which could lead to bigger problems.
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The key was differentiating between older, slower-moving lava oozing through cracks and fissures in the Earth and fresher, hotter lava that likely was being pumped up from far below the surface.
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Although no significant lava flows have yet formed, additional outbreaks of lava, which can reach temperatures of about 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit (1,150 Celsius), were expected, the Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency said.
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Kilauea's most recent eruption streak started in January 1983, when lava broke out of fissures east of the summit; the lava fountains would eventually form a cone now called Puu Oo. Between then and 60, lava flows covered about 144 square kilometers, added more than 440 acres in the Big Island's southeast, and destroyed 215 buildings, the USGS says.
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The effect, sometimes referred to as the "blue hour," occurs as the sun sets, causing light to refract off the glowing lava and creating this optical illusion of blue lava, the Telegraph reported.
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The webcams at Colima captured much of the action, with glowing blocks of the lava dome rolling down the slopes of the volcano, along with some areas that might be new lava flows.
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Or, in the case of green-tinged Hawaiian beaches, lava can erupt through ocean water in steamy, explosive events, breaking the lava into smaller pieces and fast-tracking the separation process, said Stovall.
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The lava lake at the summit has risen to an all-time high level: At its peak it spilled onto the floor of the crater, covering two-thirds of it with fresh lava.
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Lava from one of the fissures entered Kapoho Bay late Sunday or early Monday, forcing billowing clouds of steam into the atmosphere as hot lava hit the cool water of the Pacific Ocean.
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"This problem is most easily illustrated with the example situation where I divert the lava flow to save my house, but as a result, the lava flow destroys someone else's house," Andrews said.
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Smoke and volcanic gases rise as lava cools in the Leilani Estates neighborhood, in the aftermath of eruptions and lava flows from the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, on May 11, 2018.
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At the same time, the natural phenomenon also became a tourism spectacle, with lava ocean tours — like the unlucky one bombed by lava — setting out to watch the unusual phenomenon from the sea.
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The volcano erupted in April, spewing smoke, ash and lava.
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Guatemala's Fuego volcano sent lava and ash into the streets.
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Lava explosion near Hawaii tour boat injures at least 21821.
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Lava from Fissure 8 meeting the ocean earlier in August.
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Lava also has covered two wells at a geothermal plant.
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As the lava cooled, the dunes pointed up like islands.
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There is some intermittent spatter but no substantial lava flow.
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The circular lava flow was spotted Monday at Mount Cleveland.
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Close up of the lava lake at the Nyiragongo Volcano.
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It's like watching a lava lamp made of human faces.
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I add an order of chocolate lava cake — SO good.
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Lava is still actively erupting from fissures near the plant.
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Lava is seen flowing into the ocean on Monday morning.
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Littoral explosions happen when hot lava and cold seawater interact.
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The lava flow cuts across Kahukai Street in Leilani Estates.
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The other is the Lava Jato ("Car Wash") corruption investigations.
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Later, she confirmed that everything was lost to the lava.
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A closer look at the molten rock: WHAT IS LAVA?
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These eruptions occur because "lava is extremely gassy," Krippner says.
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Recent changes to Kīlauea's East Rift Zone lava flow field.
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Guinea pigs love to pretend that the floor is lava.
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Lava Jato has both encouraged and benefited from public anger.
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Most Lava Jato prosecutions are based on careful detective work.
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So please, stay away from lava and don't touch it.
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The Lava Jato investigation was too extensive to escape, however.
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It's like the Galapagos, but if the ocean was lava.
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After all, it's not just the lava lake that's gone.
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A lava river from Fissure 8 flowing to the ocean.
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Volcanic eruptions — even the slow drizzly lava flows — are astonishing.
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Get the recipe for these chocolate lava cakes right here.
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She then turned the idea into a nonprofit, Lava Mae.
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"I use Icelandic lava salt which is black," he explains.
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The Iki Crater shot lava 1,900 feet into the air.
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Once the resulting lava cools, it is essentially new land.
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Fountains erupt from vents along fissures within active lava lakes.
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In 1924, the lava lake drained, much like these days.
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The lava approached the grounds two days after the eruption.
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Lava has destroyed 50 buildings, including about two dozen homes.
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"Within a month we'll start getting lava tourists," she said.
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Furthermore, lands covered by fresh lava flows don't change hands.
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Waterfalls and lava flow on the big island in Hawaii.
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Sometimes only a little material was ejected from the lava.
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Lava was not the only challenge posed by the eruption.
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The climate of "Casa de Lava" is ripe and melancholy.
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At night, lighting effects make the water look like lava.
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This discovery emphasizes the geographic diversity of persistent lava lakes.
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And why some lava lakes persist is not entirely understood.
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It doesn't turn the world into a bubbling lava lamp.
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SHE SHALL BAPTIZE YOU IN BODY LAVA AND SIN. pic.twitter.
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You're in range of lava bombs that are being ejected.
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Meanwhile, many homeowners are scrambling as the lava flows advance.
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At night you can see the fire and lava flow.
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We would all like to poke lava with a stick.
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Lightning Bolt and Lava Burst are the most common, but even Lava Shock, Stormcrack or Earth Shock could merit a spot in your build depending on what you find you're facing most on ladder.
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Though only 39 seconds, the video gives brief yet unforgettable glimpse at the bubbling lava pooled inside the volcano, a notable contrast to the volcanic blasts we typically think of when we imagine lava.
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Lava Ocean Tours, whose website promised excursions allowing passengers to "see, hear and feel the heat" from lava flows entering the ocean, is the oldest of several tour boat companies operating in the region.
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Since then, the state reports that lava has now blanketed over 2,300 acres of land, over 2,000 people have been evacuated, and a "vigorous eruption" of lava continues in the southeastern corner of Hawaii.
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Now, a different, "fresh" type of lava is coming out of the ground, meaning that new magma (underground lava) is on the move deep inside the volcano, which could continue to feed the eruption.
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Acid rain and more lava The lava emission appears to have paused since Wednesday but scientists are warning residents of acid rain, falling ash, and eruptions that could occur Friday and in coming weeks.
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Hotter lava also could have more gasses dissolved in it, Klemetti said, which could lead to more lava spewing 100 feet into the air, like it did this week at one of the fissures.
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Why you're transfixed on lava Authorities estimated Wednesday that lava had consumed 75 homes on the Big Island, including 20 in the previous two days, Magno told reporters during a news conference in Hilo.
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"Lava entered Green Lake within Kapoho Crater, producing a large steam plume ... A Hawaiian County Fire Department overflight reported that the lava filled the lake and apparently evaporated all the water," the report said.
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A video of an explosion that was captured from another lava tour boat around the time the boat was hit shows a huge plume of dark smoke and red lava on the water's surface.
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The U.S. Geological Survey said the tiny island formed off the northernmost part of the ocean entry from Fissure 8, and was oozing lava similar to that of the larger lava flow along the coast.
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It was during this time that lava was escaping from multiple fissures near the Leilani Estates in the Puna district, and when lava began to flow into the ocean, spewing toxic steam into the sky.
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Fifteen fissures have opened since Kilauea's vents started spraying fountains of lava up to 300 feet (90 meters) into the air on Thursday and 116 acres (47 hectares) of land have been covered with lava.
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The U.S. Geological Survey said in a series of updates since Sunday that there was been a "significant reduction" in lava from fissure 8, which fed a channelized lava flow that reached the Pacific Ocean.
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Mount Kilauea began producing lava flows in early May and portions of the southeastern coastline of the Big Island have been transformed by the lava flows which covered over 13 square miles (35 square kilometers).
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Accumulations of cooled, hardened lava created a thick, 30-foot (9.14-meter) high wall of solid volcanic rock channeling fresh lava streams from fissures to the south, away from the PGV plant, USGS scientists said.
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About 2.7 billion years ago, basalt lava flowed underwater near what's now the state's border with Canada; the lava hardened, and the creep of geologic time turned it into a bedrock of greenstone and granite.
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Oozing lava has destroyed at least 26 homes on the island of Hawaii over the past few days, as the volcano of Kilauea continues to erupt, and officials don't know when the lava will stop.
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Mount Kilauea began producing lava flows in early May and portions of the southeastern coastline of the Big Island have been transformed by the lava flows that covered over 13 square miles (35 square kilometers).
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Kilauea's falling lava lake has likely descended to a level at or below the water table, allowing water to run on to the top of its lava column and create steam-driven blasts, they said.
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But antipetismo predates Lava Jato, which tainted other big parties, too.
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Then it oozes everywhere, like dairy lava from a bread volcano.
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By evening, residents were spotting lava flowing down onto their streets.
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The man told police he had smashed his truck into lava.
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Kilauea has been spouting lava, ash, and rocks since May 3.
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In Hawaii Volcano National Park, lava is streaming into the sea.
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Scientists reported lava spewing more than 200 feet into the air.
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The lava channel was estimated to be about 28 feet wide.
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Lava from Kilauea has been spewing for more than a month.
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Lava flow from Fissue 8 is emitting dangerous gasses, officials say.
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The hole in the roof of the Lava Ocean Tours boat.
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In Hawaii, there are always very fluid and steady lava eruptions.
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Lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is still actively erupting from fissures.
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Lava is bursting from Stromboli, like red sauce from a stromboli.
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A river of lava is flows behind trees during the night.
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At least one continues to spew lava at a rapid rate.
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The lava flow is currently about a mile from the highway.
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This real-time video shows lava slowly progressing across a street.
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Lava burns across a road in Leilani Estates on May 5.
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All that said, Lava Jato has revealed and punished widespread wrongdoing.
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That has raised fears that Lava Jato could be wound down.
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Hawaii volcanoes are known for two main types of lava flows.
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Lava from Kilauea volcano streaming into the ocean on July 29th.
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The seawater cools the lava, which forms a glass that shatters.
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Kilauea began erupting lava in a residential neighborhood on May 3.
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The footage comes as the lava threatens a geothermal power plant.
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Historic lava flows from both volcanoes are shown in light grey.
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Fires from the lava have burned down 35 structures — mostly homes.
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Have you ever really looked at lava falling into the ocean?
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Check out the Street View of the Vanuatu lava lake here.
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Well, consider this stone heart an oozing pile of molten lava!
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The temperature of the room heats up as lava surrounds you.
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Others are inaccessible but intact, cut off by walls of lava.
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The lava solidified, but these dunes still stuck up like islands.
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The volcano has been continuously erupting lava for some 35 years.
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He'd nearly fallen off a gigantic lizard into boiling hot lava.
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Just a few years ago, Lava imported cheap phones from China.
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Kilauea began erupting lava in a residential community on May 3.
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Maybe it's the strange, molasses-like movement of a lava flow.
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Imagine if lava lamps weren't the corniest thing in the world.
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But newer, fresher lava shooting out from fissures spell more danger.
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Lava continued to enter the Pacific Ocean near MacKenzie State Park.
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About 7.7 square miles of land have been covered by lava.
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The lava was flowing for hundreds of yards past that fissure.
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Lava covers a road in Hawaii Volcano National Park in 1969.
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Q: Is there an estimate on volume of lava flow yet?
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It thinks underwater pressure pushed the lava flow to the surface.
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That's lava cakes in the picture up there, by the way.
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Pictured below, one fissure sprayed lava as high as 230 feet.
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Fonseca has also denied any relationship with the Lava Jato case.
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As of Friday, lava has destroyed 82 structures, including 37 homes.
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Another, much larger lava flow is just dozens of feet away.
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The fountains were feeding channelized lava flows down to the coast.
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Lava was not flowing from any of the vents on Monday.
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Islam was everywhere, gushing out like hot lava from everyone's profile.
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Brazil's largest construction company, Odebrecht, is also central to Lava Jato.
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Jones: That's me and my boss opening up a lava lamp.
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Bombing Mauna Loa's lava flows will always be a fraught proposition.
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To simulate an explosion, the scientists first had to make lava.
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So, was the Lava Shack fight the last straw for Dana?
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"Imagine spraying a squirt gun of hot lava," Dr. Dyar said.
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From rockslides to earthquakes to lava, volcanic eruptions pose many hazards.
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Here's what the lava looks like from space and up close.
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The boat was touring near a lava flow around 6 a.m.
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He's like the inside of a lava cake, oozing and delicious.
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And wasn't the proximity of LAVA LAKES to ICE PALACES nice?
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Lava has been flowing down from the crater since last week.
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The Taal volcano began spewing lava on Monday morning local time.
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Newly cooled, structurally sound lava flows are much more electrically resistant.
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Tubes form by crusting over of lava channels and pahoehoe flows.
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FilmNation, Lava Bear and 21 Laps financed the $47 million production.
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The red interior and "lava red" exterior panel matches its name.
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Instead, a team of researchers recently brewed their own backyard lava.
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Once magma emerges from the earth, it is properly called lava.
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Firefighters went door to door evacuating residents before the lava arrived.
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The agency had been allowing experienced boat operators to apply for a special license that would allow them to get as close as 164 feet away from the lava, but stopped after the lava bomb incident.
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"This part of Pluto is acting like a lava lamp, if you can imagine a lava lamp as wide as, and even deeper than, the Hudson Bay," William McKinnon, New Horizons scientist said in a statement.
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The smoke intensified after the fifth rune appeared earlier today, with a larger plume that glowed orange at times, occasionally spitting out lava and shaking the map; meanwhile, lava also began to flood various excavation sites.
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But after a little while, once the lava cools, the toxic "vog" (volcanic fog) that's been accumulating in the air dissipates, and the seeds return, those lava flows might just become lush gardens and rich habitats.
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The erupting lava, which can reach a blistering 303,230 degrees Fahrenheit (248,222 degrees Celsius), crossed Highway 137 shortly before midnight local time (1000 GMT), Hawaii's Civil Defense Agency said, and sent lava flowing into the ocean.
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Lava finally reaches the Pacific -- only to create a deadly danger called laze Residents "should be prepared to leave the area with little notice due to gas or lava inundation," Hawaii County's civil defense agency said.
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What ensues is a sort of "the floor is lava" type game but instead of lava, the floor is inundated with walkers that the gang has to leap over as they navigate from stalagmite to stalagmite.
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As USA Today reports, the Lava Ocean Tours boat was hit by falling lava caused by a littoral explosion near the Kapoho volcanic ocean entry, where molten rock from the Kilauea volcano is pouring into the sea.
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"Nothing is designed to operate with lava intrusion, so there's going to be some things that burn up," Hawaii Emergency Management Agency Administrator Tom Travis said Tuesday of the lava covering the wells at the power plant.
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Based on the childhood game you and probably everyone on this Earth used to play, "The Floor Is Lava" became a huge meme in 2017, the "lava" typically being replaced by whatever it is you are avoiding.
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The massive fissure is several hundred yards long and has caused "lava fountaining, explosion of spatter bombs hundreds of feet into the air, and several advancing lava flow lobes moving generally northeast," the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said.
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On Wednesday, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported that lava flows from fissures 5 and 13 are feeding a flow that looks like it will enter the Pacific Ocean adjacent to an existing ocean entry point for lava.
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Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday that the lava feeding that flow is still active and there&aposs no way to know when the eruption will end or if more lava-spewing vents will open.
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The ongoing fountains of lava can be seen billowing from a volcanic fissure as Hawaii&aposs Kilauea volcano as the 20th day of ongoing eruptions sends lava into the Pacific Ocean and threatens a geothermal power plant.
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All eyes are on the lava these days, including my own, but as you watch summit explosions, lava fountains and ocean entries do not forget -- the driving force behind it, in one form or another, is water.
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These plumes are separate from the lava eruptions happening roughly 25 miles (33 kilometers) away from summit, where about 20 lava fissures have destroyed more than two dozen homes and forced the evacuation of about 2,000 residents.
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How to use the Lava Spin N CurlThe Chi Lava Spin N Curl has a 1-inch rotating barrel housed within a chamber that gently wraps your hair around it as opposed to you doing it manually.
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When the Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii erupted in July, a "lava bomb" flew into the sky when the lava flowed into the sea and crashed onto a tourist boat that was anchored offshore.
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Now a total of 12 fissures have opened up on the volcano's eastern side, and the glow from the lava can be seen by satellite: Lava continued to spew from the new fissures in #LeilaniEstates #Puna #Hawaii.
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Kilauea's lava flows head downslope to the Pacific Ocean on May 19.
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Before collapse A lava delta on the Kilauea volcano, prior to collapse.
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It's probably totally OK for you to toss your gadgets into lava.
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Four lava flows have reached the blue waters of the Pacific Ocean.
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In came bean bags, lava lamps, and Christmas lights, transforming the room.
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Pyroclastic flows, it should be noted, are completely different than lava flows.
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In Hawaii, where lava oozes like syrup, the gases can easily escape.
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Over time, lava accumulates and emerges above the ocean and builds islands.
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Tourists also like to watch lava flowing down Kilauea into the ocean.
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Photo: Pompeii Archaeological ParkIndeed, it wasn't lava that killed people at Pompeii.
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Their footprints, called "dune casts," were left behind in the lava field.
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Earlier in the day, officials had said the lava destroyed nine homes.
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Lava erupts from a fissure in Leilani Estates on May 23rd, 2018.
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HAWAII VOLCANO: KILAUEA LAVA BOILED AWAY BIG ISLAND&aposS LARGEST FRESHWATER LAKE
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HVO released some cool video of spattering within the summit lava lake.
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Littoral explosions happen when hot lava erupts on entry into cold seawater.
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Helmets protect against falling lava stones, and respirators ward off sulfur gases.
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And in 2002, lava leveled many hotels and restaurants in the area.
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Etna's lava definitely inexorably destroys everything it meets, but it doesn't kill.
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The world turning to hot lava when you get drunk or high.
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The lava flowed into residential neighbors, forcing nearly 2,000 people to evacuate.
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This aerial photo taken Saturday shows fissures spewing lava into the air.
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Lava covers a road, pulling down a transportation sign and electricity wires.
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The lava flowed through state forest reserve lands, burning hundreds of trees.
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Red-hot, sparkling lava is shooting into the sky in eastern Sicily.
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From the ground, lava pouring from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano can look terrifying.
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Lava Jato's latest blast will delay the reforms, if not wreck them.
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At its peak, the lava has moved as fast as 22 mph.
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Homes burn from lava that also flowed into the ocean near Kapoho.
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And when the methane interacts with lava, Stovall said, it can explode.
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Later, helicopter photos showed a smoking scar of lava across the fissure.
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The lava was also affecting power lines in the area, officials said.
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So far, three major roads have been threatened by cracks and lava.
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Lava slowly advances to Hookapu Street in Leilani Estates on May 5.
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Fast-moving pyroclastic flows of gas, ash and lava engulfed nearby villages.
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That extra lava is now coming out on the East Rift Zone.
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Most people have left the area because of the lava, Poland says.
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About 2,000 people have fled their homes as lava encroached on neighborhoods.
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"A perched lava pond at Fissure Seven glows brightly," the USGS said.
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Plus, they matched super well with our lava lamp and beaded curtains.
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Lava flowing down Leilani Avenue on the Big Island on May 27.
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But, keep those experiments to the classroom, not an active lava field.
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The number of houses destroyed by lava so far is fairly low.
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Plumes of steam rise as lava enters the ocean near Pahoa, Hawaii.
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Nearly 22 structures have been destroyed by lava, including dozens of homes.
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Though lava flows aren't as hazardous, they should still be taken seriously.
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Throughout the 1990s, approximately 200 homes were destroyed by Kilauea lava flows.
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A small lava cone can be seen in the fissure 8 cone.
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It turned out the poison was lurking in lava lizards—hawk prey.
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A brightly colored fish hanging out on Kilauea's new undersea lava delta.
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Unfortunately the lava has destroyed more than 130 homes in the process.
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More than 60 homes were gone, trapped 20 meters under hardened lava.
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But as Mount Etna reminded visitors, lava is best viewed from afar.
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You just stare at the waterfall or grassland or mossy lava bed.
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Turns out that lava will help make the Big Island even bigger.
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Sometimes the crystals can be simply weathered out from old lava rocks.
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The piece, Selfless in the Bath of Lava (1994), is gleefully dark.
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"The consistency of lava is now changing," CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar said.
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Lava meeting the ocean is, of course, the way Hawaiian islands grow.
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What's worse, the lava could take months to creep up, Birch said.
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He showed a video of his property engulfed by smoldering black lava.
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If they come for Bring It On, we will go full Lava.
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Grab a cup of tea and zone out with bubbling lava rivers.
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But burnt homes and structures are not the only consequences of lava.
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Lava is the term for magma after it erupts from a volcano.
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Another video, filmed in the backyard, shows lava consuming the couple's backyard.
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Predicting lava flows also requires scientists to step away from their simulations.
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Besides the lava, there's also the danger of "vog," or volcanic smog.
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Naturally, shoppers are losing their minds over the new chocolate lava gnocchi.
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The "Hot Lava" paint isn't the most flattering color on the 286.
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Gebbie said most residents of his neighborhood don't have lava flow insurance.
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In the communities of Vacationland and Kapoho, lava decimated hundreds of homes.
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The lava flow has added 690 acres of new land, USGS tweeted.
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The agency thinks underwater pressure pushed the lava flow to the surface.
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Fissure 8 continues to feed lava flowing to the ocean at Kapoho.
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So far, lava from Kilauea has covered 10.2 square miles of land.
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The methane can seep through cracks several feet away from the lava.
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Trader Joe's just released one of their newest products, Chocolate Lava Gnocchi.
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Luckily, Lava is serving up the most adorable interruptions we've ever seen.
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All of which is to say: The lava lamp line is topical.
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I have heard there is lava insurance, but that it's very expensive.
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I really celebrated: two Cokes, molten lava chocolate cake, and Caesar salad.
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The tubes are formed during volcanic eruptions, starting as rivers of lava.
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However, she did love the rich, chocolatey flavor of the molten lava.
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George Ariyoshi had publicly ruled out using bombs to divert the lava.
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When it rains the still-cooling lava ridges give off steam plumes.
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The lava river was running on the other side of the volcano.
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"It was like watching molten lava move through the building," Aronson remembers.
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It's set on a grassy field, adjacent to a looming lava escarpment.
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"Instead of plants, Reyka put lava rock in the still," explains Petch.
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By July, several secondary phenomena linked to the lava had been observed.
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That fissure is the origin of the lava flow that devastated Kapoho.
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His skin burned, as if lava ran through his veins, he recalled.
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The dangers include potentially deadly mud, rock and lava flows, SERNAGEOMIN said.
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But it wasn't simply the lava that nearly exterminated life on earth.
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"Nothing is cooler than a skull in black lava," Mr. Scognamiglio noted.
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Vader Immortal can't make you literally feel the burn of Mustafar's lava.
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By comparison, Mount St. Helens spewed cooler lava, about 1,472 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Here, volcanic eruptions have created lava beds up to 1,000 feet deep.
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Mr Moro convicted Lula, the most prominent of the Lava Jato miscreants.
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The molten lava lake is roughly the size of two football fields.
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When hot lava hits salty water it results in a chemical explosion.
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OAS is one of the companies linked to the Lava Jato investigation.
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So he has lived with lava, which is not dangerous, he says.
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If you're 4th or below, you're dropped into a pool of lava.
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If you're 24th or below, you're dropped into a pool of lava.
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Lava Ocean Tours was set to take tourists out as usual on Tuesday, although the "Hot Spot" was taken out of service after a basketball-size "lava bomb" tore a hole through its roof, a company saleswoman said.
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Reader Don D. pointed us in the direction of Hawaiian Lava Boat Tours, which operates a boat on the island, and captured some additional, spectacular images and video: 1/43/17 only 1 spot the lava was active.
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Intermittent short bursts of methane are visible in the video, as is "lava fountaining," which occurs when a jet of lava is sprayed into the air by the rapid formation and expansion of gas bubbles in molten rock.
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The floor of the crater collapsed and the lava flowed into a labyrinth of lava tunnels under the mountain, extending under the residential communities around Kilauea, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology said on Monday.
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Unlike the Hawaii volcano, which has destroyed homes with slow-moving lava, the Fuego volcano unleashed fast-moving pyroclastic flow -- a highly dangerous mix of ash, rock and volcanic gases that can be much more lethal than lava.
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Rock samples and chemical analysis show the lava "so far looks to be similar to the 1955 lava chemistry," Tina Neal, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientist-in-charge, told reporters Friday, according to CNN affiliates KGMB and KHNL.
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These obstacles and objects are frequently simply solidified lava flows from just a few hours earlier -- the surface of the ground is constantly changing as more lava arrives and makes its way around the now older, solidified flow.
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The big picture: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) geologist Janet Babb told Axios that since May, eruptions have created a "lava delta" spanning 825 acres, with between 50 and 150 cubic meters of lava entering the ocean every second.
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A basketball-size chunk of molten rock, known as a lava bomb, crashed into a tourist boat off Hawaii's coast this week, injuring 23 people who were there to watch lava flow off the Big Island, officials said.
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The continuous eruption has sent lava across 230 square miles, destroying more than 113 homes and casting enough lava into the ocean to extend the island by 211 acres; 230,230 people have been evacuated since the eruption began.
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