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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Johanna Chisholm

Is Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, at risk of erupting?

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The past week saw a series of earthquakes rattle beneath Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, leaving geologists to issue a warning that it was in a “state of heightened unrest”.

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake was the strongest ripple to tear across the underbelly of the formation, which is situated on the centre of the state’s big island of Hawaiʻi.

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