A series of explosions from the Hawaiian volcano Kilauea in 2018 may have been triggered by a never-before-seen style of eruption — one that’s reminiscent of a stomp rocket toy.
In May of that year, plumes of hot gas and rock blasted up to eight kilometers into the sky as the volcano erupted explosively 12 times in succession. The progressive collapse of Kilauea’s summit crater, or caldera, triggered those explosive eruptions, researchers reported May 27 in Nature Geoscience.
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