Hawaii's Kilauea erupts in area calm since 1974

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Hawaii’s Kilauea, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, began erupting Monday in a remote area of Volcano National Park that had not seen volcanic activity in half a century.

A major Kilauea eruption in 2018 destroyed hundreds of homes, but the volcano has since “gone away from a period of steady eruptions,” USGS geophysicist Michael Poland told The New York Times. These days it has “discrete, usually shortish eruptions happening in several different places.” The last eruption in the region of Monday’s event was in late 1974, and it “lasted only about 6 hours,” Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency officials said to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

“People just need to realize this is in one of the safest places it could have happened,” Big Island Mayor Mitch Roth said. “Absolutely no property in danger.”

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