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The East Molokai has a width of 70 km (43 mi) and a length of 150 km (93 mi). It is overlapped by the West Molokai, Lanai and Haleakalā shield volcanoes. Its shield formation began two million years ago and ended 1.5 million years ago whereas its postshield eruptions occurred 1.5 to 1.3 million years ago.
Molokai, Hawaii: East Molokai Volcano: Landslide: One-third of the East Molokai volcano collapsed into the Pacific Ocean, generating a tsunami with an estimated local height of 2,000 feet (610 m). The wave traveled as far as California and Mexico. [17] [18] [19] ≈220,000–170,000 BCE Tenerife, Canary Islands: Mount Teide: Eruption and landslide
Indonesian authorities on Wednesday ordered hundreds of villagers to evacuate following multiple eruptions of a remote island volcano, raising fears it could collapse into the sea and trigger a ...
Molokai, Hawaii: East Molokai Volcano: Landslide: One-third of the East Molokai volcano collapsed into the Pacific Ocean, generating a tsunami with an estimated local height of 2,000 feet (610 m). The wave traveled as far as California and Mexico. [16] [17] [18] ≈9.91–9.29 ka: Dor, Israel: Unknown
A tsunami that devastated the area around Indonesia's Sunda Strait, leaving at least 222 dead and hundreds more injured, struck fast and without warning on Saturday.
An explosive volcanic eruption occurred near the Kingdom of Tonga, a nation of 170 islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, causing tsunami waves to impact the region and ash to fill the sky. A ...
The northern half of the East Molokai Volcano on Molokai in Hawaii suffered a catastrophic collapse about 1.5 million years ago, generating a megatsunami, and now lies as a debris field scattered northward across the ocean bottom, [35] while what remains on the island are the highest sea cliffs in the world. [36]
"Tsunami activity" was detected after an underground volcano eruption near the South Pacific country of Tonga, New Zealand's National Emergency Management Agency tweeted on Saturday."We have ...