Video

Kamoamoa

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

Duration: 6 minutes, 7 seconds
Date Created: 2011-03-06
Credit: Division of Interpretation
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Description

Enjoy this six minute video of the Nāpau fissure eruption that started on March 5 2011. This footage was taken on March 6 2011 between 12:00 noon and 1:00 pm. Volcanologists have begun calling the vent Kamoamoa, after the ahupua'a (land division) in which it is located.