Waar ligt de vulkaan Mauna Loa?
Op het eiland Big Island bevindt zich het Hawaï Volcanoes National Park, waar de 2 actieve vulkanen van Hawaï zich bevinden: Mauna Loa: grootste, actiefste en zwaarste vulkaan ter wereld en. Mauna Kea: de hoogste berg ter wereld.
Welke soort vulkaan is Mauna Loa?
4.169 mMauna Loa / Hoogte
What is the Mauna Loa?
“An immense shield volcano within the Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau, northwest Pacific Ocean”. Nature Geoscience. 6 (11): 976–981. Bibcode: 2013NatGe…6..976S. doi: 10.1038/ngeo1934. ^ a b c d G. Macdonald & D. Hubbard (24 March 2006) [1951, 7th ed. revision December, 1974]. “Mauna Loa, Fiery Colossus of the Pacific”. National Park Service.
How high is the summit of Mauna Loa?
Its long submarine flanks descend to the sea floor an additional 5 km (16,400 ft), and the sea floor in turn is depressed by Mauna Loa’s great mass another 8 km (26,200 ft). This makes the volcano’s summit about 17 km (55,700 ft) above its base!
Why is Mauna Loa so dangerous?
Because of the potential hazards it poses to population centers, Mauna Loa is part of the Decade Volcanoes program, which encourages studies of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes. Mauna Loa has been monitored intensively by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory since 1912.
How old is the Mauna Loa volcano?
Mauna Loa is one of five subaerial volcanoes that make up the island of Hawaiʻi. The oldest volcano on the island, Kohala, is more than a million years old, and Kīlauea, the youngest, is believed to be between 210,000 and 280,000 years of age.
De vulkaan Mauna Loa ligt op het eiland Hawaï in de staat Hawaï in de Verenigde Staten. Het is de grootste vulkaan op aarde (niet de hoogste, dat is Ojos del Salado in Chili met 6887 m; ook de op hetzelfde eiland gelegen vulkaan Mauna Kea is net iets hoger).