CNN got a bird's-eye view of Mauna Loa's eruption, the world's largest active volcano on Hawaii's Big Island.
From a deep fracture in Mauna Loa’s dark terrain, the volcano’s magnificent eruption sends geyser-like fountains of lava spraying into the sky. The fissure – cracked open on the northeastern slope of the world’s largest active volcano – feeds a searing flow of molten rock that cuts through the contours of Hawaii’s Big Island. Plumes of volcanic gas, including sulfur dioxide, rise into the air, and delicate strands of volcanic glass, called Pele’s hair, float downwind.
But the history of this volcano is painful for Hawaii’s Big Island. Its 2018 eruption spewed lava into the large Leilani Estates neighborhood, swallowing more than 700 homes and surrounding others with thick layers of volcanic rock, creating unreachable patches of green foliage in a sea of blackened destruction. Dorothy Thrall can still walk to the spot where her community once stood, now blanketed with hardened lava.
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