Kilauea Eruption May Help Scientists Solve Lava Mystery
The volcano has the potential to turn deadly.
With very little fanfare, an American volcano has been erupting for almost 35 years. For a record-breaking phenomenon, researchers are taking the activity at Hawaii's Kilauea remarkably in stride—for now.
"This is pretty normal for the past couple decades," Carolyn Parcheta, a geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's , told . "We don't expect the eruption overall to end any time soon." Right now, the decades-long eruption, through a vent known as Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō, is the longest known modern event, she added, but there's geological evidence of a previous flow that lasted about
