Despite how it looks, Hawaii’s volcanic eruption is small potatoes
If you knew there was, say, a 0.5% risk that your dream home would burn up in any given year, would you still build it?
That, volcanologists suggest, is the type of decision residents on the southeast side of Hawaii’s Big Island have always had to face.
The climate there is about as perfect as it can get. At an elevation of 1,150 metres, for example, the average high temperature is 19 to 22 degrees Celsius, year-round, with an average low of 10 to 13. Not too hot; not too cold.
There’s just one problem: a volcano named Kilauea.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/despite-how-it-looks-hawaii-s-volcanic-eruption-is-small-potatoes
