It’s of a variety called composite volcanoes, which form concave cones. Mauna Loa and Mount St. Helens erupt in different ways,” said Liz Westby, a geologist based at the U.S. Geological ...

Mauna Loa is taller than Mount Everest Mauna Loa is one of 15 volcanoes located in the eight main Hawaiian islands. It makes up roughly 51% of the island of Hawaii, according to the U.S. National ...

Volcanoes have always amazed scientists, geologists, and travelers– not just because they can erupt, but because they show ...

The magma in Mount St. Helens tends to be stickier and ... you could get a cut,” Pietruszka said. Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano erupts for first time since 1984 Hawaii’s Mauna Loa rumbles ...

The activity at Hawaii's Kilauea volcano started around 4:15 p.m. local time and lasted for several hours, according to the U ...

Mauna Loa is one of five volcanoes that together ... smoke cloud from an A-bomb blast than steam and ash from a volcano eruption, Mt. St. Helens sent this plume of steam and ash some 60,000 ...

Washington's Mount Rainier and Sicily's Mount Etna also made the list. Perhaps most interestingly, Mauna Loa has some competition for the crown of the largest volcano — that is, on the Earth's ...

Japan's Mount Fuji is another example of a composite volcano. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory has more than 60 GPS stations on Mauna Loa taking measurements to estimate the location and the ...

Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano erupted. It's one of several ongoing eruptions – including Kilauea, also on Hawaii, and Indonesia's Mount Semeru. At just over half the size of the big island of ...

Japan’s Mount Fuji is another example of a composite volcano. The first eruption in 38 years of Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, is drawing visitors to Hawaii Volcanoes National ...

The Mauna Loa volcano erupted on Sunday ... the largest since the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, according to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

The magma in Mount St. Helens tends to be stickier ... side the volcano the way it is starting to do now. Mauna Loa is a shield volcano, named because the long, broad flanks built by repeated ...