On the southeastern section of the Big Island of Hawaii, there is an unusually long and deep crack which runs across a swath of the Kilauea volcano. Known as "The Great Crack", it measures 8 miles or 13 kilometer long, is up to 66 feet deep and up to 50 feet wide. Since this feature is located on the southwestern section of the Kilauea volcano, does the crack directly indicate that a section of the island is breaking away? This video will answer that question and discuss this geologic oddity.
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Sources/Citations:
[1] U.S. Geological Survey
[2] Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
[3] U.S. Geological Survey, www.usgs.gov/news/volcano-wat.... Several attributed direct quotes in this GeologyHub video were pulled from this article, along with the dimensions of The Great Crack (in the video and in the video description)
[4] The information on when southwest rift zone eruptions occurred was sourced from a diagram/image/graphic by K. Mulliken
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0:00 The Great Crack
0:30 Kilauea Rift Zones
2:20 The Great Crack Model
3:34 Earthquakes
4:09 Conclusion
2 июн 2024