Guest Thinkers — September 1, 2010

Kilauea lava flows entering the sea

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Kilauea

There are some nice videos of the current eruption of Kilauea (after some tedious commercials via the link at the top of the article) with lava spattering and lava reaching the sea on the 4th of July. Not much description of the eruption in the article, but it sounds like it is just the Hawai’ian volcano doing what it does best (and possible ramping up for more).

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