A closer look at the molten rock: WHAT IS LAVA?
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A land famous for orange molten rock will be dry.
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The molten rock started pouring into the sea over the weekend.
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Molten rock plus water equals steam—quite a lot of steam, actually.
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They've been formed deep underground long ago, brewing in the molten rock.
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Also, Kilauea is now tapping intensely hot molten rock from deep underground.
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At the moment, that lake of super-hot molten rock is dropping.
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Molten rock that glows red is probably in the felsic temperature range.
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Some volcanoes like Hawaii&aposs Kilauea, directly spew this type of molten rock.
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At least 40 more structures have also been destroyed by the molten rock.
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Sure, a wall of molten rock consuming a car is quite the sight.
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Kilauea volcano erupted Thursday, spewing molten rock and high levels of sulfur dioxide.
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Active volcanoes have pools of molten rock inside of them called magma chambers.
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Volcán de Fuego (Volcano of Fire) spews molten rock from its crater at night.
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Molten rock that reaches the surface of the earth is, of course, called lava.
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A huge mass of molten rock is creeping upwards beneath the nation's north eastern states.
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Instead, they dip rock hammers into the molten rock, extracting curdled-up magma for testing.
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A wall of molten rock flew out of it like a flaming Las Vegas fountain.
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Scientists say explosive eruptions occur when magma -- or molten rock -- drops below the water table.
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Others captured devastating fires engulfing homes after rivers of molten rock flowed through the neighborhood.
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A volcano is what happens when the earth's crust leaks and molten rock squirts through.
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The molten rock can then push its way up to the surface of the Earth.
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The volcanic ridges form where the planet's oceanic slabs slowly pull apart and ooze molten rock.
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Pop-culture depictions of meteors also often depict them as flaming masses of semi-molten rock.
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For a while, a portion of Highway 132 transformed into a unholy river of molten rock.
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A river of molten rock is flowing toward a community that got wiped out last week.
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The molten rock formed rivers that bisected forests and farms as it meandered toward the coast.
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Lava picks up speed Flaming rivers of molten rock have already destroyed at least 40 structures.
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The molten rock eventually caught up to, and consumed, the GoPro, causing it to burst into flames.
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What it looks like a red bar in the center of your screen is actually molten rock.
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In 2002 it erupted and a river of molten rock, 200 metres wide, poured down towards Goma.
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Kilauea's eruption has also generated earthquakes and featured gushing molten rock, giant ash plumes and sulfur dioxide.
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It took some 100 million years for the deeply buried molten rock to cool down and crystallize.
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Structures destroyed, more fissures open Flaming rivers of molten rock have already destroyed at least 40 structures.
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First lava, then quakes Kilauea volcano erupted Thursday, spewing molten rock and high levels of sulfur dioxide.
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These move constantly above the mantle -- a layer of solid and molten rock below the Earth's crust.
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Threat level: The eruption covered villages in ash and molten rock after an explosion on Sunday afternoon.
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Photos and drone footage showed cracks opening across green yards and roadways and molten rock bursting out.
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Her house in Leilani Estates was completely consumed by the molten rock, she told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.
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The 20-foot lava wall was seen after active flows from fissures dumped the molten rock in neighborhoods.
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Officials and volcanologists tell the BBC that magma, molten rock, has been detected close to the volcano's surface.
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On Monday, a lava bomb -- a flying chunk of molten rock -- struck a tour boat, injuring 23 people.
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It&aposs producing the highest lava wall, which is blocking molten rock from flowing north toward the plant.
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The molten rock, or magmas, beneath these volcanoes are typically viscous and gas-charged — and usually erupt explosively.
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Following a collision and the formation of the synestia, a "seed" formed within it from chunks of molten rock.
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It could be millions of years before the planet's biggest volcanoes manage to squeeze out any more molten rock.
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When Vesuvius finally erupted, it threw a massive column of molten rock, scalding ash, and pumice into the sky.
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Since then, however, Hawaiians have regularly witnessed Kilauea erupt and grow larger as molten rock poured into the sea.
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Lava flows have picked up speed in recent days, spattering molten rock that hit a man in the leg.
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When lava comes out of the ground, the USGS carefully collects and analyzes pieces of the cooling molten rock.
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As molten rock begins to pool underground, immense stress is put on the layers of rock that surround it.
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This molten rock reaching temperatures of 1,25°C is nearly unstoppable, though people have certainly tried to redirect it.
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Hot spots can emerge in the mantle, creating a conduit for molten rock in the plate toward the surface.
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Other images taken by helicopter showed molten rock inching across a subdivision, setting fire to the structures it touched.
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The molten rock is coming from the Kilauea volcano, which has been erupting continuously for the past 35 years.
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It was more of a glancing blow, and the collision threw tons of molten rock and metal into Earth's orbit.
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Volcanologists say a river of molten rock upwards of 20 feet tall tore through the Kapoho Beach Lots and Vacationland.
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Al Arabiya reported that this pit of molten rock may have been created by an electrical fire underneath the building.
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The volcanic ridges mark the places where oceanic slabs slowly pull apart, giving molten rock and gases an escape route.
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When you live on a partially-molten rock in an airless void orbiting a massive fusion reactor, these things happen!
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"Laze," as scientists call it, is generated when the molten rock interacts with the sea and is cooled off. Gov.
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"We think of rocks as so very permanent, but here's molten rock that's coming out of the ground," Klemetti says.
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A separate flow of red-hot molten rock was headed in the direction of the Vacationland community to the south.
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Such spherules are believed to form when a huge comet or asteroid sprays droplets of molten rock into the air.
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Sections of streets that disappeared under the lava two weeks ago now look like a river of black molten rock.
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Later, steam rose from the widening fissures before orange columns of molten rock erupted geyser-like into the tropical air.
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Cryovolcanoes are ice-world versions of volcanoes that spew out water, ammonia, and methane instead of ash and molten rock.
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The earth itself comes apart, and from its depths blast fiery molten rock, acrid gas, and towering plumes of ash.
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For 22018 years, this volcano has oozed lava from the ground, with the molten rock mostly flowing into the ocean.
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The Volcan de Fuego exploded in hail of ash and molten rock blanketing nearby villages with heavy ash at around noon.
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A Hawaii man hit by a flying piece of lava says the molten rock nearly cut his left leg in half.
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She says it&aposs also producing the highest lava wall, which is blocking molten rock from flowing north toward the plant.
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This interactive graphic shows the potential areas of risk from hot gases, ash and molten rock "bombs" spewing from the volcano.
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Volcanoes are created when magma, or hot molten rock, rises through cracks in the Earth's crust, causing pressure to build up.
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The lava bomb, or flying chunk of molten rock, left a large hole in the boat's roof, the fire department said.
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This typically means that magma is rising up from the source of Kīlauea's molten rock over 28503 miles beneath the volcano.
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The difference in shape, and in eruptions, is related to the viscosity of the molten rock, or magma, within each volcano.
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Six huge fissures sent rivers of molten rock through a blackened, volcanic wilderness that was once jungle, farmland and rural homes.
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In the live video, people can be heard discussing whether they should begin "hiking out of here," away from the molten rock.
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Lava is molten rock, or magma, that reaches the earth&aposs surface in a slush of crystals and bubbles of volcanic gases.
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The authors reached some unexpected results: Supervolcanoes destroy slowly, oozing molten rock across the landscape rather than blasting it in pyroclastic storms.
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Mount Etna, Europe's largest and most active volcano, has been spewing red-hot molten rock and ash for the past few weeks.
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Sam Tarly appears to be well on his way to removing the molten rock that has attached itself to Jorah Mormont's body.
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The molten rock all around it can't quite keep up, and it breaks (or fragments, in volcanology jargon) into a billion pieces.
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A hot spot is the point where a plume of magma -- molten rock -- is protruding through the upper levels of the crust.
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Kilauea has been spurting lava, molten rock, and poisonous gases from multiple massive fissures on the island of Hawaii since May 3rd.
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Inland, there are methane explosions from molten rock and toxic gas is reaching some of the highest levels seen in recent times.
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Since Pluto's surface is covered in volatile ices, it doesn't take as much heat to melt as it would for molten rock.
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An intrepid team of Icelandic researchers hopes that magma, or molten rock, might one day become a super-powerful geothermal energy source.
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It is a place where lava flows dammed a river and sent molten rock up and down a canyon for over 10 miles.
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Molten rock brews under the rocky floor, releasing mostly steam, said Mertzman, but also common volcanic gases like carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide.
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The yard was littered every few feet with fallen lava, but Clinton wasn't worried about getting hit by the hunks of molten rock.
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Officials are asking residents to get out now to avoid getting trapped by flaming molten rock, Hawaii County Civil Defense said Monday night.
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But its smooth slopes and cute name belie its deadly nature: Inside is an enormous chamber, churning with molten rock and toxic gas.
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The U.S. Geological Survey said Hurricane Lane could produce "whiteout conditions" around the lava field as the rain hits the hot molten rock.
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Molten rock entirely covered Vacationland and only a few buildings remained in the nearby Kapoho subdivision, officials with the U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday.
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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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HAWAII VOLCANO GENERATES FAST-MOVING LAVA CAUSING NEW EVACUATIONS, SHUTS MAJOR ROAD Molten rock trapped at least one person who was rescued by authorities.
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The source of these eruptions are enormous amounts of hot molten and semi-molten rock, or magma, which still sit under the park today.
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Residents have been concerned about hazards if lava flowed over the plant&aposs facilities or if the molten rock heated chemicals at the plant.
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By analyzing tides in the Martian crust and mantle, NASA was able to confirm the planet has a liquid outer core of molten rock.
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Its activity typically consists of lava flows, partially molten rock that gently oozes out of a fissure in the ground and slowly moves downhill.
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That newborn moon — a ball of molten rock covered in a magma ocean — was nearly 16 times closer to Earth than it is today.
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Ridges like this are the birthplace of oceanic crust; molten rock rises from deep within the Earth to the seafloor, creating profuse volcanic activity.
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Hawaiian volcanoes aren't typically capable of deadly, explosive events thanks to the quality of the molten rock, or magma, that lies beneath its surface.
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An evacuated home inside Leilani Estates, a subdivision on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano where molten rock destroyed more than 30 houses after an eruption last week.
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Since 1983, the Puʻu ʻŌʻō spatter cone in Kilauea's eastern rift zone has been erupting continuously, splashing molten rock down its flanks and enchanting visitors.
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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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Streets turned into rivers of black molten rock, the vegetation has rotted and now they are fearful their homes could be swallowed by the cracks.
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This layer of molten rock — situated between the solid inner core and the semi-solid mantle — rotates slightly faster than the rest of the planet.
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A well at Puna Geothermal Venture, known as PGV, was successfully plugged before the molten rock reached it Sunday evening, Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency said.
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In this image taken with a long exposure, the Volcan de Fuego, or Volcano of Fire, spews hot molten rock from its crater in Alotenango, Guatemala.
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Kilauea spewed rivers of molten rock that swallowed hundreds of homes before creeping several miles (km) to the ocean, ultimately engulfing two seaside housing developments there.
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On Monday, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) explained on Twitter that roasting marshmallows over scorching, molten rock is not a great idea for a multitude of reasons.
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A boiling pool of molten rock is surely majestic in real life, but I'm not sure how much I can withstand the pungent scent of sulfur.
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Geothermal energy, while of outsized importance on the Big Island, isn't present elsewhere simply because the Big island is where molten rock brews beneath the Earth.
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It knocked out power to some residents who were already dealing with mandatory evacuation orders, molten rock and high levels of sulfur dioxide in the air.
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This indirect journey to the center of the Earth has revealed crazy stuff like subterranean oceans, molten rock, and a big ole ball of iron-nickel.
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The Volcan de Fuego, or "Volcano of Fire," exploded in a hail of ash and molten rock shortly before noon, blanketing nearby villages in heavy ash.
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Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim has said that rivers of molten rock spewed from volcanic fissures at the foot of Kilauea have engulfed roughly 600 homes.
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Kilauea has experienced "fountaining" of lava, where the molten rock is thrust a hundred feet or more into the air as gas bubbles out of it.
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The fleeing townspeople had just minutes to escape, and many perished in the soot and ash even before rivers of molten rock descended upon the town.
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Permeating the deposit were tiny spheres of clay and glass, known as tektites, which formed as molten rock, ejected by the impact, showered from the sky.
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But since the eruption, the famous lava lake has shrunk "significantly," said the U.S Geological Survey, as molten rock has apparently sought other routes to the surface.
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The Volcan de Fuego, or "volcano of fire," exploded in a hail of ash and molten rock shortly before noon Sunday, blanketing nearby villages in heavy ash.
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After nearly two and a half weeks of spewing lava and toxic gases, the river of molten rock oozing from Kilauea&aposs fissures has reached the ocean.
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She says volumes of the gas spiked when the vents began gushing more lava and rivers of molten rock started streaming toward the ocean over the weekend.
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It has been gushing lava high into the sky and sending a river of molten rock toward the ocean at about 300 yards (274 meters) per hour.
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As the molten rock continues to collide with the waves—the first time this has happened since 2013—it will form new land mass along the coast.
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Geologists say Kilauea has since entered a more violent phase, in which larger volumes of molten rock are oozing from the ground and traveling farther than before.
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However, they will follow the Coast Guard's revised policy and stay farther away after an explosion caused molten rock to barrel through the roof of a vessel.
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Inland, where molten rock is burning through jungle, methane explosions are hurling boulders while toxic gas is reaching some of the highest levels seen in recent times.
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This region aligns with the boundaries of tectonic plates, where the movement of these plates can trigger tremors and create pockets of molten rock that form volcanoes.
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There was something inescapably primal about it, he liked to say, a thrilling reminder that civilization sits on the crust of a planet made of molten rock.
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Some explosions could be so tiny they are barely visible, but, in certain conditions, large explosions can happen that send molten rock and other debris into the air.
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The planet-formation process generates a lot of heat, so rocky worlds such as Mars and Earth are covered by oceans of molten rock shortly after they form.
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This vent has been gushing lava high into the sky and sending a river of molten rock toward the ocean at about 300 yards (274 meters) per hour.
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It&aposs just the latest hazard from a weeks-old eruption that has so far generated earthquakes and featured gushing molten rock, giant ash plumes and sulfur dioxide.
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CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE LAVA CAM Though officials have urged residents to steer clear of the molten rock, several people have been mesmerized by the volcanic activity.
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As magma destroyed four more homes, molten rock from two huge cracks merged into a single stream, threatening to block other escape routes and touching off brush fires.
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Kilauea's eruption, which has already produced nearly two dozen lava-spewing fissures, entered a more violent phase at the weekend, producing larger volumes of molten rock from fissures.
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These cracks are appearing from "deformation of the ground surface due to the underlying intrusion of magma" -- which is molten rock that is underground, according to the agency.
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Underscoring the eruption's dangers, a Hawaii man was hit by a flying piece of lava over the weekend said the molten rock nearly sheared his leg in half.
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Roughly 1,700 locals in nearby residential areas were forced to evacuate as molten rock barreled through the area, engulfing at least 26 homes in its path, CNN reports.
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Oozing flows of molten rock have destroyed some 37 buildings in the past 10 days, while emissions of sulfur dioxide gas in some areas has turned vegetation brown.
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In this image taken with a long exposure, the Volcan de Fuego, or Volcano of Fire, spews molten rock from its crater in Alotenango, Guatemala, Sunday, June 3, 2018.
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Geologists say the volcano has entered into a more violent phase, in which larger amounts of molten rock are pouring out from fissures and traveling further than before.[Reuters]
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Ever since Thursday's initial blast, the "lava lake" in Kilauea's center has been draining, as molten rock flows into and around Leilani Estates and Lanipuna Gardens via underground streams.
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It's now molten rock from near Earth's mantle, a zone (1,800 miles thick) beneath Earth's crust that's so hot the rock there perpetually exists in a semi-fluid state.
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Tourists often climb to the 924-metre (3,000-foot) summit of the volcano and peer into its crater, with small puffs of molten rock regularly blasted into the sky.
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Microtektites are the blobs of glass that form when molten rock is blasted into the air by an asteroid impact and falls back to Earth in a solidifying drizzle.
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He grounds the movie in science but he also helps give it a conversational lightness, as he stands and delivers on, say, molten rock and Mr. Herzog ponders creation.
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A. The temperature of magma inside a volcano — and of lava as it emerges — is highly variable and depends in part on the chemical composition of the molten rock.
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Starting in January at Kīlauea Volcano's Kamokuna ocean entry, the lava hit the salty water, shooting molten rock upward and outward, accompanied by a rising, steamy cloud of acid.
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But one possibility the study raises is that as more ice melts above these volcanoes, it will encourage molten rock, known as magma, to flow upwards, increasing volcanic activity.
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Molten rock from the erupting Kilauea volcano already has destroyed at least 117 homes in the Lanipuna Gardens and Leilani Estates neighborhoods where lava surfaced more than a month ago.
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Underscoring the eruption&aposs dangers, a Hawaii man was hit by a flying piece of lava over the weekend and said the molten rock nearly sheared his leg in half.
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The pressure on that molten rock forced huge amounts of it into cracks and fissures of the surrounding host rock, where it formed deposits of what are known as pegmatites.
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One road that used to bend downhill now disappears under a sea of lava that has built up into a mount that is still spewing volcanic gas and molten rock.
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The Kīlauea volcano in Hawai'i oozed molten rock for months during 2018, and eventually became the most destructive eruption in the United States since Mount St. Helens exploded in 1980.
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In general, an eruption occurs when the pressure of magma, underground molten rock, exceeds that of the rocks on top holding it in place, though earthquakes can also trigger eruptions.
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Lava fountains from a fissure in the volcano reached as high as 180 feet (55 meters) from Saturday night into Sunday, pushing flows of molten rock into the ocean, it said.
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Since last Thursday's eruption, the neighborhood has been under assault by molten rock, which has fountained and oozed out of the earth and had destroyed 36 homes as of Tuesday night.
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Since last Thursday's eruption, the neighborhood has been under assault by molten rock, which has fountained and oozed out of the earth and had destroyed 36 structures as of Tuesday night.
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White plumes of acid and extremely fine shards of glass are billowing into the sky over Hawaii as molten rock from Kilauea volcano pours down a hillside and into the ocean.
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As Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano keeps regurgitating molten rock, the US Geological Service continues to post amazingly terrifying photos and videos of lava spewing up in the air and taking over land.
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What started as a seeping, slow eruption, with lava moving slowly over the Big Island, has more recently been erupting with force, sending chunks of molten rock flying into the air.
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Four weeks have passed since the first eruption rocked Hawaii's Big Island and lava continues oozing from volcanic fissures, burning homes to the ground and turning into rivers of molten rock.
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"It's pretty active and there's no reason to see why that would change," said Phoenix, noting that molten rock will be brewing beneath its surface for hundreds of thousands of years.
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Hawaii officials said the decimated homes were in the Leilani Estates subdivision, where molten rock, toxic gas and steam have been bursting through openings in the ground created by the volcano.
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It was an explosive eruption that killed more than 400 people when molten rock propelled by high winds surged toward warriors who were battling at the summit, according to Live Science.
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There are indications, for example, that higher sea levels in the ancient past reduced volcanism at midocean ridges, as the extra weight of water acted to constrain molten rock, or magma.
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Since May 3rd, Hawaii's most active volcano, called Kilauea, has been spewing out lava and molten rock on a residential area called Leilani Estates, prompting evacuations and destroying up to 27 homes.
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Authorities on Sunday warned the public that as molten rock from Kilauea volcano poured into the ocean, a toxic steam cloud has formed due to a chemical reaction when lava touches seawater.
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And I guess it would be kind of tough for Google to get a camera close enough to molten rock to get the right shot for Street View without the camera melting.
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What followed was a flurry of earthquakes as huge volumes of magma — the term for lava beneath the surface — drained back through deep-underground passages that carried the molten rock far downslope.
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Officials have warned of the danger of getting close to molten rock oozing into the sea, saying the interaction of the lava and seawater can create clouds of acid and fine glass.
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Lava is, basically, a relatively tiny amount of gas in a lot of partially molten rock; ash is a relatively small amount of solid rock in a lot of hot gas, instead.
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This last discovery gives some credence to theory that comets might have seeded life on Earth — perhaps plunging into the surface of the planet when it was little more than molten rock.
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When a volcano erupts explosively (as opposed to gentler lava eruptions from, for example, Hawaiian volcanoes), it ejects exploded particles of molten rock (aka "magma") into the air, which becomes volcanic ash.
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The volcanic mountains spring up at the seams where Earth&aposs tectonic plates inch away from each other, creating new ocean floor as molten rock rises from beneath the plant&aposs crust.
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At least 75 homes — most of them in the hard-hit community of Leilani Estates — have been devoured by streams of red-hot molten rock creeping across the landscape since May 3.
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Just a couple of days after a sea cliff collapsed and cut off a dramatic stream of lava in Hawaii, the so-called "fire hose" is back, pouring molten rock into the ocean.
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The team also observed 47,000 more subtle surface changes—markings that form when a meteorite punches out a crater and sends a wave of molten rock shooting across the surface at high speeds.
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About 4.5 billion years ago, when the Earth was brand new, its molten rock cooled to form a solid crust, and water vapour condensed into liquid oceans where life eventually would take hold.
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As of June 5, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reports molten rock shooting from the ground and fountaining between 150 and 180 feet into the air before slowly flowing downhill, toward the ocean.
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In pictures: Guatemala volcano erupts By contrast, Kilauea produces lava (or sticky, molten rock) that typically creeps along at maybe hundreds of meters per hour -- not nearly as fast as devastating pyroclastic flow.
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Within a minute of hitting the Earth, the Chicxulub asteroid had bored a hole nearly 100 miles wide into the sea floor, creating a bubbling pit of molten rock and super-hot gas.
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Fountains of magma spouted "lava bombs" more than 2100 feet (193 meters) into the air as the molten rock traveled east-southeast towards the coastal road - Highway 219 - the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said.
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Fountains of magma spouted "lava bombs" more than 2100 feet (212 meters) into the air as the molten rock traveled east-southeast towards the coastal road - Highway 219 - the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said.
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Last year, lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano flowed into the ocean, creating bombs of molten rock that were flung into the sky and then smashed into a nearby tourist boat, injuring 23 people.
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HONOLULU – Hawaii&aposs Kilauea volcano has captivated people around the world by shooting lava high into the sky and sending rivers of molten rock pouring down hillsides into the ocean over the past month.
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Screenshot: Ikaika Marzo (Facebook)Earlier today, a basketball-sized chunk of molten rock slammed into a tour boat off the coast of Hawaii, injuring 23 people and sending at least four to the hospital.
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Fissures that opened up in the surrounding neighborhoods sent lava spewing as high as 300 feet in the air, swallowing homes, cars, and roads in molten rock and forcing roughly 2,000 residents to evacuate.
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The fissures often rumble as they are erupting, the pounding heard over a mile away -- caused by that dangerous mix of molten rock and deadly volcanic gases being forced from deep within the earth.
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Several kilometers below ground, a drilling rig named Thor will soon penetrate the area around a magma chamber, where molten rock from the inner Earth heats up water that has seeped through the seafloor.
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"There are not many places that conduct experimental work on magma-water interaction with [molten rock]," Ingo Sonder, the project's lead investigator and a research scientist at the Center for Geohazards Studies, told Motherboard.
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The Hawaiian islands were formed over such a hot spot as molten rock breached the earth's surface and cooled down, layering with each eruption until islands cropped up from the bottom of the ocean.
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The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island unleashed havoc a week ago when the earth split open, lava spewed hundreds of feet into the air and molten rock swallowed streets in a residential neighborhood.
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This is because the magma â€" underground molten rock â€" beneath Hawaiian volcanoes is not as thick as volcanoes like White Island, so they don't trap gas and build up explosive pressure over time.
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While only one crack in the ground is spewing molten rock and the height of fountaining lava has decreased in recent days, "it&aposs still really impossible to tell," when it will end, Stovall said.
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Lava flows are molten rock, often oozing like syrup, whereas pyroclastic flows are a hot mess of exploded magma that has rapidly hardened into a range of particles, from ashy volcanic dirt to large rocks.
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On Monday, another fissure spewing lava and unhealthy gas opened up , and a crack in the Earth that emerged a day earlier was sending molten rock on a slow run for the ocean, officials said.
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On Monday, another fissure spewing lava and unhealthy gas opened up, and a crack in the Earth that emerged a day earlier was sending molten rock on a slow run for the ocean, officials said.
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Fourteen more lava-filled fissures have erupted in the days since the sloping sides of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano split open a week ago, spurting molten rock onto the surrounding neighborhoods' streets and destroying 36 structures.
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"When the asteroid struck, tons of pulverized and molten rock, mixed with hot gases, were thrown out at high velocity in all directions from the rapidly forming crater," explained Amor in an email to Gizmodo.
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The magma is moving around in chambers located miles underground, so it's difficult — if not impossible — to measure how much swirling molten rock is down there and how much more might bubble to the surface.
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These "Karoo firewalkers," as University of Cape Town geologist Emese Bordy called them, were some of the last animals known to have lived in this inhospitable region before it ultimately was engulfed by molten rock.
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Now, researchers have put forward a paper arguing that if there is indeed a sizable briny-lake underneath this ice cap, hot molten rock (magma) must have oozed up near the surface and melted the ice.
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After a stomach-churning 90-minute boat ride in rough waters Sunday, we had arrived where the tongue of molten rock from Hawaii&aposs Kilauea volcano took its steamy last breaths of fire into crashing waves.
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Potential visitors to the Big Island have been spooked by images of lava torching homes, soldiers wearing gas masks and now deadly white clouds of acid and glass shards as molten rock streams into the Pacific.
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Most of the two dozen volcanic vents have grown largely quiet over the past week, with just one, Fissure 8, still spewing large volumes of molten rock from the ground as of Wednesday, the USGS said.
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Lava from an active fissure nearby had flowed onto the property early this week, posing the risk of toxic gases being released in the event molten rock encroached into any of several pressurized deep-underground wells.
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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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A huge steam-driven explosion, caused by molten rock mixing with seawater as it poured from the shoreline, sent a "lava bomb" crashing through the roof of the boat and into the vessel's seating area, authorities said.
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Lava from an active fissure nearby had flowed onto the property early this week, posing the risk of toxic gases being released in the event the molten rock encroached into any of three pressurized deep-underground wells.
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Magma spewed from 100-foot-high (20173-meter-high) cinder cones and formed elevated ponds of molten rock that were expected to soon overflow and stream into the next rows of homes - Kahukai Street and Mohala Street.
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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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In the study, researchers found that molten rock (magma) under the Campi Flegrei volcano could be slowly building up toward a massive eruption, one big enough to carve out a huge depression on the landscape called a caldera.
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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 explosion can be explained by molten rock coming in contact with ocean water, which causes the water to boil quickly, sending off plumes of steam, said Einat Lev, a volcanology expert and assistant professor at Columbia University.
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Geologists say Kilauea's eruption, which has already produced around two dozen lava-spewing fissures, has now entered a more violent phase, in which larger volumes of molten rock are oozing from the ground and traveling farther than before.
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Using shovels and backhoes, emergency workers dug through the debris and mud, perilous labor on smoldering terrain still hot enough to melt shoe soles a day after the volcano exploded in a hail of ash, smoke and molten rock.
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While no one has died as a result of the current Kilauea eruption, a man on the Big Island was recently hit by a flying piece of lava and said the molten rock nearly sheared his leg in half.
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Seismologists reported that there are no anomalous gases, and no signs that the collection of magma, which is the molten rock beneath the surface of the Earth, is getting inflated in the recent swarm of earthquakes at the volcano.
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PAHOA, Hawaii – A volcano that is oozing, spewing and exploding on Hawaii&aposs Big Island has gotten more hazardous, sending rivers of molten rock pouring into the ocean Sunday and launching lava skyward that caused the first major injury.
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Bryan was among dozens of tourists watching lava pour into the ocean off Hawaii's Big Island at dawn on Monday when a volcanic explosion hurled molten rock and ash at the "Hot Spot" boat operated by Lava Ocean Tours.
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Ring of Fire Saturday's tsunami was caused when molten rock pouring out of the Anak Krakatau volcano prompted a series of underwater landslides, pushing water up and causing a wave which grew as high as three meters (10 feet).
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While no fatalities have yet been recorded in the ongoing Kilauea eruption in Hawaii a man on the Big Island was recently hit by a flying piece of lava and said the molten rock nearly sheared his leg in half.
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This video, which was captured during a helicopter flight over the lower East Rift Zone on the morning of June 14, shows the lava spewing from Fissure 8 as it continues to feed channels of molten rock flowing into the ocean.
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Lava from the erupting Kilauea volcano crept onto the property of Puna Geothermal Venture Monday, burning a small structure and heightening fears that the power plant could release clouds of toxic gas if it is compromised by the molten rock.
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In fact they can measure the crust thickness with a resolution of 75 miles, helping them understand what causes the variation in gravity as well as confirming previous results that found Mars to have a liquid outer core of molten rock.
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The molten rock that began emerging over the past few days was from magma that has recently moved down the volcano&aposs eastern flank from one or two craters that sit further upslope -- the Puu Oo crater and the summit crater.
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The molten rock that began emerging over the past few days was from magma that has recently moved down the volcano&aposs eastern flank from one or two craters that sit further upslope — the Puu Oo crater and the summit crater.
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Molten rock from several lava-spewing fissures opened by Kilauea Volcano crept toward clusters of homes and vacation rentals on the eastern tip of Hawaii's Big Island on Wednesday, prompting authorities to usher residents out of the area as a precaution.
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A fissure in the volcano spewed molten rock 160 feet (49 meters) on Tuesday, slightly lower than the 180 feet (55 meters) it reached from Saturday night into Sunday, pushing a steady flow of lava into the ocean, the USGS said.
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Hardman and his colleagues proposed a few possible explanations for the province's formation, such as the presence of plumes or upwellings of molten rock in Earth's mantle, which is a hot layer of our planet below the surface and crust.
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Where there were once houses and tropical back gardens in Leilani Estates, magma spews from 100-foot-high (30-meter-high) cinder cones and forms elevated ponds of molten rock that cascade over their banks to engulf the next street.
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Hawaii tour boat operators plan to continue taking visitors to see lava, but will follow the Coast Guard's revised policy and stay farther away after an explosion caused molten rock to barrel through the roof of a vessel, injuring 22016 people.
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He spent a few hours down there, "running around like crazy with my GoPro," capturing piles of footage of this roiling inferno, a hole in the earth filled with molten rock so angry and orange that it looks like CGI on his clips.
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The red is volatiles, the yellow is molten rock (Image: Philip J. Carter)If you made a building out of bricks and cinderblocks, then hundreds of years later you'd expect it to still be, well, a building made of bricks and cinderblocks.
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The ongoing eruption of Hawaii&aposs Kilauea Volcano and continued lava flows may soon be visible to gawking tourists on land after an explosion caused molten rock to barrel through the roof of a tour boat injuring 23, a local official said Tuesday.
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Image: COH Civil DefenseToday's dramatic explosion, captured on video by a tourist on another nearby boat, threw molten rock into the air, including the basketball-sized lava bomb that pierced through the roof of the Lava Ocean Tours boat, creating a large hole.
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PAHOA, Hawaii – White plumes of acid and extremely fine shards of glass billowed into the sky over Hawaii as molten rock from Kilauea volcano poured into the ocean, creating yet another hazard from an eruption that began more than two weeks ago.
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HONOLULU (Reuters) - Molten rock from several lava-spewing fissures opened by Kilauea Volcano crept toward clusters of homes and vacation rentals on the eastern tip of Hawaii's Big Island on Wednesday, prompting authorities to usher residents out of the area as a precaution.
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As the sun blows out into a red giant, expanding its outer layers farther out into the solar system after the fuel in its core runs out, the temperature on our planet would increase, turning our planet into a ball of molten rock.
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When the ground shook and the earth under Purfano's adopted hometown ripped apart, as Kilauea spewed molten rock and fire, Purfano became one of thousands of residents displaced following the recent eruption of one of the most active volcanoes on the planet.
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The growing ferocity this month of Kilauea's eruptions, which are burying home after home under rivers of molten rock, has provoked questions about how thousands of families managed to put down stakes in such a disaster-prone domain in the first place.
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PAHALA, Hawaii (Reuters) - A third lava flow from Hawaii's erupting Kilauea volcano streamed into the ocean on Thursday as U.S. Marine Corps helicopters stood by to evacuate a Big Island community should molten rock or huge cracks block its final escape route.
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PAHOA, Hawaii (Reuters) - A tide of molten rock turned a Hawaii street into a volcanic wasteland on Friday as the number of homes destroyed by the erupting Kilauea volcano soared and authorities told residents to flee a surge of lava heading towards them.
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Ball and the USGS teams are studying how the magma - molten rock from the earth's crust - tracks through a network of tubes under the volcano in what is known as the "Lower East Rift Zone," before ripping open ground fissures and spouting fountains of lava.
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There diamonds would have remained were it not for molten rock rushing through the mantle and drawing diamonds, garnets and other minerals with it, like a furious river pulling dirt from its banks, before erupting through Earth's surface faster than the speed of sound.
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HAWAII VOLCANO TOURISTS MAY SOON SEE ERUPTION FROM SAFE VIEWING AREA ON LAND, OFFICIAL SAYS Shane Turpin, owner and captain of the vessel involved in the episode, has previously told The Associated Press he never saw the explosion that rained molten rock across his boat.
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As the nation was transfixed on the bright red lava spewing from fissures created by Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, one island resident told his frightening tale of getting too close to the molten rock -- and nearly losing a leg to a "powerful and hot" lava bomb.
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Running is not necessary -- a typical flow from this eruption moves a few feet per second, so walking is probably fine (but do get away!) Lava -- molten rock flowing on the ground for everyone to see -- can be as beautiful as it is dangerous.
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Residents on the Big Island of Hawaii were alerted on Thursday to rising levels of toxic gas from lava-oozing fissures, and geologists warned that new areas east of the erupting Kilauea volcano may be at risk to molten rock bursting from the ground.
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The asteroid hit with the power of 10 billion atomic bombsHere's what their timeline showed:Within a minute of the impact, the asteroid had bored a hole nearly 100 miles wide into the seafloor, creating a bubbling pit of molten rock and super-hot gas.
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A growing river of molten rock flowing from a fissure at the foot of Kilauea Volcano is believed to have demolished scores of additional homes and filled in a small bay at the eastern tip of Hawaii's Big Island, civil defense officials said on Tuesday.
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The obliteration of the Kapoho Beach Lots and Vacationland subdivisions by a river of molten rock some 210 to 15 feet (3 to 4.6 meters) tall brings to at least 400 the number of homes and other structures consumed by lava during the past month.
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At least 75 homes — most of them in Leilani Estates — have been devoured by streams of red-hot molten rock creeping from about two dozen large volcanic vents, or fissures, that have opened in the ground since Kilauea rumbled back to life four weeks ago.
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HONOLULU (Reuters) - Tour boats offering a close-up look at lava pouring from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano into the Pacific Ocean returned to the waters off the Big Island on Tuesday under new safety rules, a day after 23 passengers were injured by ash and molten rock.
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A new lava flow spewing from a fissure caused by Hawaii's Kilauea volcano crossed onto the geothermal plant property and continued its slow advance as officials worry that the molten rock could block more escape routes, trapping residents in several nearby neighborhoods on the Big Island.
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PAHOA, Hawaii (Reuters) - Residents on the Big Island of Hawaii were alerted on Thursday to rising levels of toxic gas from lava-oozing fissures, and geologists warned that new areas east of the erupting Kilauea volcano may be at risk of molten rock bursting from the ground.
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Dipping your hand into molten rock won't kill you instantly, but it will give you severe, painful burns — "the kind that destroy nerve endings and boil subcutaneous fat," says David Damby, a research chemist at the USGS Volcano Science Center, in an email to The Verge.
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PAHOA, Hawaii, May 11 (Reuters) - More than a week after the eruption of the Kilauea volcano, Hawaii residents felt tremors and earthquakes on Friday as molten rock flowed underground towards a rural area where more lava was expected to burst to the surface and threaten homes.
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One woman's leg was broken when the "lava bomb," which burst from the water near the boat as molten rock poured into the ocean, landed on the roof of the vessel and crashed into the seating area, said Hawaii County Fire Department Battalion Chief Darwin Okinaka.
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In a fiery reminder of its presence and its power, Mount Etna roared to life this week on the island of Sicily, sending red-hot fountains of molten rock and ash high into the air and down the slopes of Europe's largest and most active volcano.
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PAHOA, Hawaii (Reuters) - A growing river of molten rock flowing from a fissure at the foot of Kilauea Volcano is believed to have demolished scores of additional homes and filled in a small bay at the eastern tip of Hawaii's Big Island, civil defense officials said on Tuesday.
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Photo: APThat unfortunately means that the newer fissures are spraying lava at even higher pressure, Stovall added, with the USGS estimating some were shooting molten rock as high as 93 feet (70 meters) in the air—though it is possible they could eventually shoot as high as 1,000 feet (305 meters).
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Rivers of molten rock are swallowing cars, homes, and everything else in their path as new fissures continue to crack open, and though thousands of people on the Big Island have managed to evacuate, it now looks like the seemingly never-ending stream of molten lava has claimed its first injury.
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Through her labwork and modeling, Dr. Stewart, 45, has been able to increase understanding about Earth's origin, and has proposed a new theory on how the moon was formed: It is the result of a synestia, a cloud of vaporized and molten rock produced when two objects collide at high velocity.
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It's this version of Pele that Big Island residents have encountered head-on over the past couple weeks, after being shook by a 6.9 earthquake and being met with an eruption unlike any they're used to—streams of magma, hot ash, and molten rock exploding from Kilauea's mouth at a rate much faster and more forceful than its typical, slow-moving flows.
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Many of the older fissures have stopped spewing molten rock, though the Associated Press reported that one of the newer fissures was spewing magma as far as 100 feet (30 meters) in the air, and the situation risks getting even worse as the volcano runs out of "relatively cool, sluggish magma left over from a similar event in 1955" and instead begins leaking fresher magma.
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According to Reuters, the volcanic activity in the past few weeks exceeds the entirety of damage since Kilauea's current eruption cycle began some 35 years ago:The obliteration of the Kapoho Beach Lots and Vacationland subdivisions by a churning river of molten rock some 10 to 15 feet (3 to 4.6 meters) tall brings to at least 350 the number of homes and other structures consumed by volcanic lava during the past month.
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