Potential for Months-Long Warning Ahead of Next Mauna Loa Eruption

Thanks to a new understanding of what triggers the eruption of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, it may be possible to predict the next eruption more than two months in advance.

“Hawaii is a well-studied place in volcanology and is seen as a place where we should know everything about it, but there is still much to be discovered in the 2020s,” he said. says. kendra lynn At the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaii Volcano Observatory.