{"id":11090,"date":"2012-10-26T15:54:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T01:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=11090"},"modified":"2021-12-09T09:44:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T19:44:10","slug":"hawaiis-dueling-volcanoes-and-more-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/10\/26\/hawaiis-dueling-volcanoes-and-more-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawai\u02bbi<\/span>‘s dueling volcanoes and more in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Lava flows from K\u012blauea volcano’s Puʻu ʻOʻo<\/span> Crater. (Photo courtesy USGS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A new study, which appears in the November issue of Nature Geoscience<\/em>, finds that a deep connection about 50 miles below Earth’s surface can explain the enigmatic behavior of two of the world’s most notable volcanoes, Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s Mauna Loa and K\u012blauea.<\/p>\n

The research was conducted by scientists with the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Institute of Geophysics and Planetology<\/a> in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology<\/a> at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa<\/a>, along with colleagues at Rice University, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Carnegie Institution of Washington.<\/p>\n

Their findings offer the first plausible model that can explain both the opposing long-term eruptive patterns at Mauna Loa and Kīlauea—when one is active, the other is quiet, and vice versa—as well as the episode in 2003-2007 when GPS<\/abbr> records showed that both inflated concurrently.<\/p>\n

Read the news release<\/a> or learn more about the study as featured by Big Island Video News<\/em><\/a>, Civil Beat<\/em><\/a>, Hawaii News Now<\/em><\/a>, Honolulu Star-Advertiser<\/em> (subscription required), PhysOrg<\/em><\/a>, and RedOrbit<\/em>.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> in the News for October 19–25, 2012<\/p>\n