This oral tradition describes the caldera's formation by a dramatic collapse of the volcano's summit area. So, how did the caldera form? To trigger a collapse, the material must be removed from the magma reservoir within the volcano, creating a void into which the overlying rocks fall. Perhaps incremental collapse occurred as the magma storage region gradually emptied, then eventually led to a final large collapse as described in Hawaiian chants. During that time, at least four strong explosive eruptions sent tephra high into the jet stream, with ash falling over a broad area east and offshore of the volcano.
Near the end of this explosive period in , a series of explosive eruptions sent searing pyroclastic surges at least 3. This was the deadliest eruption known from a U. Several hundred and perhaps more than a few thousand people were killed within a few hundred meters of where the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and the National Park's Jaggar Museum are located today.
The unfortunate victims died as a result of the hot, ash-rich surge that both suffocated and burned them. Only a few lava flows have erupted during the years of explosive activity, but that changed in when the volcano reverted to an effusive interval that continues to this day. In addition to summit eruptions, numerous lava fountains and lava flows have issued from vents along the volcano's southwest and east rift zones.
The eruption occurred days after the active lava lake drained away, with the magma probably intruding into the volcano's East Rift Zone. For 17 days, rocks, ash, and dust erupted in dramatic clouds rising from the crater. Rocks weighing many tons were hurled as far as a kilometer 0. Within two months, lava reappeared in the crater and above the level of the water table, which inhibited additional large steam explosions.
Although the period of explosive eruptions was brief and violent, they were small compared to those between and May 18, - one of many in a series of similar events during May At present, Kilauea volcano is still having one of the most long-lived eruptions known on earth, which started in on the eastern rift zone and has mainly been concentrated at the Pu'u 'O'o vent.
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Hawaiian chants and oral traditions tell in veiled form of many eruptions fomented by an angry Pele before the first European, the missionary Rev. William Ellis, saw the summit in The caldera was the site of nearly continuous activity during the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century.
From to eruptive activity was nearly continuous along the volcano's East Rift Zone.
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