How did mount Kilauea form?
Kīlauea is the youngest and southeastern most famous volcanoes volcano on the Big Island of Hawai`i. Kilauea can be found on the Big Island of Hawaii, on the southeastern slope of Mauna Loa, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Kilauea is one of largest active craters in the world, has a circumference of 8 mi (13 km) and is surrounded by a wall of volcanic rock 200 to 500 ft (61—152 m) high. The series of eruptions that produced the Keanakako’i Ash devastated an area of at least 75 square mile s (190 km 2). In about 1790, one of these eruptions struck a large party of Hawaiian warriors, killing at least 80 people in the deadliest historical eruption to occur in what is now the United States.
