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    coincided with those of Mauna Loa, Kīlauea was once thought to be a satellite of its much larger neighbor. Kīlauea has a large, fairly recently formed...
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    of the 2020 census it had a population of 3,014. Kīlauea shares the name of the active volcano Kīlauea on the island of Hawaii. The name translates to...
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    Inouye Kīlauea Point Lighthouse, also known as Kīlauea Light, is a lighthouse located on Kīlauea Point on the island of Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi in the Kīlauea Point...
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    Kīlauea Military Camp (KMC) is operated as a Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) facility on Hawai‘i Island, also known as the Big Island, in Hawaiʻi...
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    of one family, while Kohala, Mauna Kea, and Kilauea are members of the other. Because Mauna Loa and Kīlauea are active volcanoes, the island is growing...
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    246417°W / 19.413883; -155.246417 Kīlauea Iki is a pit crater that is next to the main summit caldera of Kīlauea on the island of Hawaiʻi in the Hawaiian...
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    Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge on the northwest coast of the island of Kauaʻi in Hawaiʻi. Kīlauea Lighthouse was...
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    eruption at Kīlauea, but had no discernible effect on the Kīlauea eruption, and the 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa occurred during an eruption of Kīlauea. Geologists...
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    Leilani Estates Kapoho Kīlauea Puʻu ʻŌʻō    The 2018 lower Puna eruption was a volcanic event on the island of Hawaiʻi, on Kīlauea volcano's East Rift Zone...
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    1969–1971 Mauna Ulu eruption of Kīlauea, Hawaiʻi. By contrast, a lava lake at the 1983–1984 Puʻu ʻŌʻō eruption of Kilauea displayed cyclic behaviour with...
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    Kīlauea is a currently active volcano that is located on the island of Hawaiʻi and is still being extensively studied. Many Hawaiians believe Kilauea...
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    Isles. ʻAʻa advances over solidified pāhoehoe on Kīlauea, Hawaiʻi A pāhoehoe lava fountain on Kīlauea erupts A lava lake in the caldera of Erta Ale, an...
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    by the same eruption of Kīlauea in January, 1960 (abandoned). Kalapana, Hawaii, was destroyed by the eruption of the Kīlauea volcano in 1990 (abandoned)...
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  • The Kilauea Plantation or Kilauea Sugar Plantation was a large sugarcane plantation on the north side of Kauai island, Hawaii, including the community...
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    The Kīlauea Caldera (Hawaiian: Kaluapele), officially gazetted as Kīlauea Crater, is a caldera located at the summit of Kīlauea, an active shield volcano...
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    Hawaiian Kingdom. Kīlauea is one of the world's most active volcanoes, and until August 2018 was continuously in action since 1983 along Kīlauea's East Rift Zone...
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    volcanic activity and provides images and interpretations of the volcanism. Kīlauea had been erupting nearly continuously since 1983 when it stopped August...
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    the Kīlauea District of the park was closed due to explosive eruptions at Halemaʻumaʻu, though the Kahuku District remained open. The Kīlauea District...
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    Caconemobius fori, the Kīlauea lava cricket or dark lava cricket (Hawaiian: 'ūhini nēnē pele), is a species of lava cricket endemic to the island of Hawai'i...
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  • This is a list of volcanic eruptions from Kīlauea, an active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands that is currently erupting. These eruptions have taken...
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  • occurred between 1911 and 2016. More recently, a caldera collapse occurred at Kīlauea, Hawaii in 2018. The term caldera comes from Spanish caldera, and Latin...
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    the Kīlauea volcano, on the Island of Hawaiʻi (the "Big Island"), erupted continuously between 1983 and 2018. Based on June 2008 measurements, Kīlauea emits...
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    USNS Kilauea (AE-26) was the lead ship of her class of ammunition ships of the United States Navy. She was named for Kilauea, the Hawaiian volcano. Kilauea...
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    Halemaʻumaʻu (category Kīlauea)
    HAH-lay-MAH-oo-MAH-oo) is a pit crater within the much larger Kīlauea Caldera at the summit of Kīlauea volcano on island of Hawaiʻi. The roughly circular crater...
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    years. The island of Hawaiʻi is composed of five volcanoes, of which four (Kilauea, Mauna Loa, Hualalai, and Mauna Kea) are active. The island of Maui has...
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    Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (category Kīlauea)
    Hawaiian volcanoes: Kīlauea, Mauna Loa, Kamaʻehuakanaloa (formerly Lōʻihi), Hualālai, Mauna Kea, and Haleakalā, of which, Kīlauea and Mauna Loa are the...
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    caused by other Hawaiian eruptions such as the 2018 eruption at neighboring Kīlauea that destroyed 700 homes. The Hawaii County civil defense administrator...
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    magma was encountered in a drillhole during geothermal exploration on Kīlauea in 2005. At a depth of 2488 m, the magma flowed up the wellbore. This produced...
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    microliths of augite, olivine and feldspar lie imbedded. From the crater of Mt. Kilauea, thin clouds of steam rise constantly, and as the bubbles of vapor are...
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    eruption was a VEI-4 eruption that occurred from the summit caldera of Kīlauea volcano in or around November 1790. It has been described as the deadliest...
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