Advancing wall of lava from Kilaueu volcano buries housing tracts on Hawaii's Big Island
An ever-creeping wall of lava from Kilauea volcano has engulfed two entire seaside housing tracts at the eastern tip of Hawaii's Big Island, government scientists reported Wednesday, an area where civil defense officials said nearly 280 homes once stood. The obliteration of the Kapoho Beach ...
Hawaii evacuees leave newly lava-threatened homes on Big Island
U.S. National Guard troops, police and firefighters ushered the last group of evacuees from homes on the eastern tip of Hawaii's Big Island early on Saturday, hours before creeping lava from the Kilauea volcano severed all road access to the area, officials said. A stream ...
Hawaii volcano eruption enters new phase as crater falls quiet
As lava continued to pour vigorously from the ground through fissures at the foot of Kilauea Volcano, the month-old eruption on Hawaii's Big Island has entered a new, seemingly calmer phase inside the summit crater, government scientists said on Friday. But volcanologists monitoring and measuring ...
A broad lava flow cascaded toward a Hawaii geothermal power station Saturday, posing a new hazard as molten rock from the erupting Kilauea volcano bulldozed relentlessly through homes and backyards. The lava was less than half a mile (800 meters) from the Puna Geothermal Venture ...
'Lava tide' from Kilauea swallows street as many more homes burn in Hawaii
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. The destructive fury of the ...
'Ballistic blocks' shoot from Hawaii volcano, may mark start of violent eruptions
"Ballistic blocks" the size of microwave ovens shot from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano Wednesday in what may be the start of explosive eruptions that could spew huge ash plumes and hurl smaller rocks for miles, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Such eruptions, last seen nearly a ...
Mount Kilauea's violent new eruptions in Hawaii puzzle scientists
The latest bursts of molten rock, ash and toxic gas from Mount Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii are part of an ever-changing and still largely mysterious cycle of eruptions that have been at work for hundreds of thousands of years. Kilauea, one of ...
Airlines laid on extra flights to Bali on Thursday to allow some of the thousands of passengers stranded by the eruption of Mount Agung to fly out, as a switch in wind direction sent volcanic ash away from the holiday island's airport. Agung was partially ...
Japan-based name 'Chibanian' set to represent geologic age of last magnetic shift
The name "Chibanian," based on a stratum discovered in Chiba Prefecture, is set to represent the geological age when the latest reversal of the Earth's magnetic fields is believed to have occurred, a Japanese national research institute said Monday. The National Institute of Polar Research ...
Low-pitched, rumbling rocks could help predict when earthquakes strike, research says
Rocks under increasing pressure before earthquakes strike send out low-pitched rumbling sounds that the human ear cannot detect but could be used to predict when a tremor will strike, scientists said Monday. Researchers recreated powerful earthquake forces in a laboratory and used high-tech algorithms to ...
The Japanese 'Tunnel Man' of Alaska: Not quite life on Mars, but pretty out-there
With his dream of inhabiting the red planet out of reach, Kenji Yoshikawa instead sought out similar landscapes on Earth and teaches kids about Mars-style permafrost.
Japanese researchers propose 'Chibanian' as name for new geologic age
Japanese researchers have applied to have a new geological age based on ancient strata in Chiba Prefecture named "Chibanian." The strata illustrate the Earth's most recent switch in magnetic poles during a period from 126,000 to 770,000 years ago. The period has been proposed as ...
