Next Mauna Loa eruption could be predicted months in advance

Thanks to a new understanding of what triggers the eruption of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, it may be possible to predict the next eruption more than two months in advance.

“Hawaii is a well-studied place in volcanology, and we tend to see it as a place we have to know everything about, but there is still much to be discovered in the 2020s,” says the U.S. said Kendra Lin of the Geological Survey’s Hawaii Volcano Observatory. .