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Less than three weeks after Mauna Loa ' s charter, the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor propelled the United States into World War II. Mauna Loa, sailing independently from the US, was diverted in the days after the Pearl Harbor attack to Sydney, Australia, arriving on December 29. There she was offloaded the 214 vehicles, several barrels of ...
On 9 February a near-disaster occurred while Mauna Loa was supplying USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) with gunpowder. With the men on Mauna Loa moving the powder containers over faster than they could be removed to the magazines of the battleship, the cans gradually piled up to more than a hundred on Pennsylvania's forward deck. At 16:35 a flash of ...
PÅhakuloa Training Area lies in a high plateau between lower slopes of Mauna Kea to approximately 6,800 feet (2,100 m) in elevation and to about 9,000 feet (2,700 m) on Mauna Loa. The training area is about midway between Hilo, on the east coast and the Army landing site at Kawaihae Harbor. [5] It is used by both the U.S. Army and Marine Corps.
To Native Hawaiians, Mauna Loa's latest eruption offers a moment to connect to their culture and honor the goddess Pele.
USS Mauna Loa has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to: . USS Mauna Loa (SP-28), a patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918 SS Mauna Loa, a Matson Navigation Company ship under charter to the United States Department of War to rush supplies to the Philippines in November 1941 that was later sunk by Japanese bombs in the bombing of Darwin, Australia on 19 ...
Like all Hawaiian volcanoes, Mauna Loa was created as the Pacific tectonic plate moved over the Hawaii hotspot in the Earth's underlying mantle. [10] The Hawaii island volcanoes are the most recent evidence of this process that, over 70 million years, has created the 3,700 mi (6,000 km)-long Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain. [11]
The Mauna Loa summit, cabins and high-elevation areas have been closed since early October when the summit first began "experiencing heightened unrest." Mauna Loa Observatory, located just outside ...
Why the Mauna Loa Eruption Is a Scientific Bounty Andrew Richard Hara - Getty Images. The world’s largest volcano has erupted for the first time since 1984, and it could prove a scientific bounty.