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Kilauea volcano errupts, lava more than 1k feet high [video]

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Big Island is an extremely interesting place. Its just few kilometers wide but it has around 8 climate zones ranging from snow, desert, volcano, tropical, beaches, rainforest what not. You can drive less than an hour and go from desert to snow and snow to tropical.

There is one public bus that goes around and once I was the only passenger and the driver stopped the bus near the ocean to show the travelling whales/dolphins.

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YT link is live video. USGS info: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea Timeline: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/volcano-updates/volca...

Money shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24GcMK020Ao

Three weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db9qvUWYgcQ

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Can’t predict the volcano, but I highly recommend a helicopter trip over Kilauea if you have a chance to go. Even if it is not currently erupting, from the air you can see the cooled lava flow paths and it’s clear the massive volume that occasionally flows out.

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Big Island is an extremely interesting place. Its just few kilometers wide but it has around 8 climate zones ranging from snow, desert, volcano, tropical, beaches, rainforest what not. You can drive less than an hour and go from desert to snow and snow to tropical. There is one public bus that goes around and once I was the only passenger and the driver stopped the bus near the ocean to show the travelling whales/dol…

Also the tallest mountain on Earth!

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Big Island is an extremely interesting place. Its just few kilometers wide but it has around 8 climate zones ranging from snow, desert, volcano, tropical, beaches, rainforest what not. You can drive less than an hour and go from desert to snow and snow to tropical. There is one public bus that goes around and once I was the only passenger and the driver stopped the bus near the ocean to show the travelling whales/dol…

Also the tallest mountain on Earth!

For those downvoting: As measured from the planetary surface(=sea floor in this case), as opposed to sea level

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also the tallest mountain on Earth!

For those downvoting: As measured from the planetary surface(=sea floor in this case), as opposed to sea level

I've always thought that it seems like a silly way to measure it.. Everest also goes to the sea floor, technically.
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