Dramatic lava flows in Hawaii bring to mind the sinking of Lemuria Mu
- Lava flows from Kilauea volcano in Hawaii. Credit: AP Photo/David Jordan
Check out this amazing photograph of a lava flow from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii National Park. Credit: AP Photo/David Jordan
The lava is plummeting and sizzling into the Pacific Ocean and has created over 500 acres of new land at the coastline.
The Hawaiian islands are supposed to some of the remants of the lost continent of Lemuria Mu. Lava flows like this one bring to mind the kinds of forces that could have destroyed Lemuria Mu hundreds of thousands of years ago.
For me, this photos shows something that is downright scary.
One of my friends has seen an eruption of this volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island. She said that when she and other tourists stood in the viewing area at a distance from the volcano, even at a “safe” distance, the heat was almost unbearable. She had to keep turning around to cool first one side of her body and then the other.
I can see how a person could be fascinated by volcanoes, but I can’t see how a vulcanologist would want to put themselves in danger just to study them. For more amazing photographs of this volcano and many others, take a look at these Live Science images.
