ERUPTION IN HAWAII

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 79, 1 October 1919, Page 7

ERUPTION IN HAWAII

GREAT VOLCANO'S ACTIVITY.

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■;„■ '; ■-HONOLULU, •.-30th September. '; Mauiia v ' Loa is, in. eruption. "' Ho"mes have been destroyed and the residents are fleeing.' . i ■. \'. ..

/[Mauna: Loa, in Hawaii Island,', is-by far the largest -- : volcano in the World. Its-base measures about 75 miles-from north to soiith and about 50 miles' from' east to west, and it rises gradually, to a height, of 13,675 feet. On its southeastern side is 'the crater known .'as Kilsihea, .which is eight miles in circumference, and is the largest /active, crater ki>own. .This crater erupted violently about: the end of the eighteenth century, and numerous eruptions of a..quiet type have-occurred within the knowledge of white people. The crater on the top of Mauna Loa, known as 'Mokuaweoweo, is;nearly fpursquare miles in area. As a rule eruptions are characterised by the fracture of the .mountain side well below y the summit, and the disfcharge of vast streams of lava.through the.fissure. The first recorded ■. outbreak was in 1832; and there have been ten ov more eruptions since—some of them very' violent, but mostly of a ..more,) placid type, characterised by the . quiet outflow of, vast streams iof'lava. In 1868 an eruption was attended, by earquakes which raised great waves in the sea. and these didheavy damage to settlements on the coast. The! nrimo Mauna Loa meaiis "great mountain," and the name .is closely related to . the Maori Maunga Roa, or long mountain.] '."•■■■