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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHawaii's newest volcanic cone is over 100 feet tall. How will it be named?
BY MARK KAUFMAN
The town of Volcano is swaying, back and forth.
Its been rocking and rolling, Bobby Camara, a Volcano resident who spent decades working as a ranger at the nearby Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, said from his Big Island home.
Though the tremors are mild, they still cause the lamps in Camaras house to gently swing.
You feel like youre drunk or on a boat the quakes are quite subtle," Camara said.
For over three months, the southeastern portion of Hawaii has been quaking and gushing lava, though the vigorously erupting lava recently took a pause.
One of the more stark results of this activity stoked by the movement of hot rock beneath the ground has been the creation of a volcanic cone, appearing as a sort of blackened, miniature volcano.
Currently standing at some 100 feet tall, it grew upwards as lava fountained high into the air, and then fell in heaps back to the ground. Volcano scientists informally call it Fissure 8, and its known geologically as a spatter cone. But what might this new Hawaiian feature be named?
Many local Hawaiians both native and those that came here from other lands want to make sure that the cone gets a Hawaiian name.
https://mashable.com/2018/08/13/hawaii-volcano-naming-kilauea/#EMp.JEk24kqc
Just like a new birth...................sometimes it takes a awhile....................
dubyadiprecession
(5,711 posts)Who will then have to give the money to the victims of the lava flows.
canetoad
(17,154 posts)It should be named eponymously. The Volcano Volcano.
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)?
doc03
(35,332 posts)yonder
(9,664 posts)It's a recent phenomenon from the hellish bowels of the earth.
It is topped with an uncontrolled orangeness.
Most things in its vicinity eventually die except similar apparitions from below.
Despite its danger, some people worship it, while educated folks stay away.
It is short in stature compared with other volcanoes.
Legend has it that people (sometimes virgins) have been and continue to be sacrificed in order to appease it.
It spews toxic gases and arbitrarily erupts without warning.
At 100 feet tall, one name fits: the Mal-a-Lardo Rise.
denbot
(9,899 posts)Sorry, someone had to do it..
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Great minds....
maxrandb
(15,330 posts)A giant blackhead spewing putrid smelling gunk