Mohamed--Kilauea

   Kilauea (Kill-a-way-a) A falling volcano in the midst of destroying the whole western border of the U.S. and the islands of Hawaii. Kilauea is a Volcano that has been eruptive ever since anyone can remember. It is now even the most active volcano in the whole earth. Kilauea has been active ever since the late 1790s for as long as anyone can recall. Warriors were going to fight the King Kamehameha when Kilauea suddenly erupted and destroyed the whole army. King Kamehameha, with the aid of Kilauea of course, then went on to conquer all of the islands of Hawaii. Also Kilauea, since of all the fragments of volcano falling off of Kilauea, caused one tsunami that made waves reach all over the palm trees that eye witnesses said. Kilauea has also helped the Hawaiians in many different ways. In one way when developers wanted to build a resort on the coastline of its southern flank it erupted and dropped the border by 3 meters which upended their plans. Also despite the warnings of Kilauea houses were built on its south coast yet again in a region called Kalapana. Pele, although, the Hawaiian goddess of fire, took care of Kalapana in 1990 when lava flowed from Kilauea and destroyed the whole subdivision but killed no one (Richard Monastersky). Kilauea as Scientists believe is slipping slowly but still slipping away from Hawaii as each day passes. Scientists have found out that each year Kilauea has been traveling 10 centimeters. Also through those transactions it has cause earthquakes and tsunamis. Kilauea, on November 29.1975, causes a 7.2 magnitude earthquake which went on for almost a week. Kilauea not only causes trouble for everyone else but to itself too because from all those earthquakes and tsunamis hitting it, it started to shed. It has been dropping giant slabs of volcano down to the Ocean floor for years. One of the gigantic slabs rivals Manhattan in size (Richard Monastersky)! In the whole 20th century Kilauea has erupted 44 times! Alone! (Kendrick Frazier) Since January 3rd 1983 Kilauea has pumped out more that 1.3 kilometers of rock! Even though Kilauea doesn’t have the biggest eruptions like the other volcano in Hawaii it still has the longest going eruptions on Earth.