Hawaii’s volcano is raining green gems from the sky

Rob Waugh  14 June 2018

Hawaii’s volcano is raining green gems from the sky.The gems have rained from the sky (Picture Twitter)

Hawaii’s volcano has spewed billions of tons of molten rock for the last 40 days – and it’s spewing green gems onto the island.

Residents have even reported green gems falling from the sky.

They’re not valuable, sadly: the mineral is olivine, magnesium iron silicate, and is commonly to be found around volcanic hotspots.

On Hawaii, it’s so common that there are ‘green sand’ beaches like Mahana Beach on Hawaii’s Papakolea coast. 

Kilauea Volcano – AP Image

The eruption stands as the most destructive in the United States since at least the violent 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state, according to geologist Scott Rowland, a volcanologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Hawaii’s Kilauea’s volcano has produced extremely hot and relatively slow moving lava flows, which have engulfed hundreds of structures but allowed people to evacuate.

The Mount St. Helens eruption also ejected pyroclastic flows, which reduced hundreds of square miles (km) to wasteland, and killed nearly 60 people and thousands of animals.

The Hawaii eruption, with high walls of slow-moving lava, has engulfed about 600 homes since May 3, Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim said last week.

Source:https://uk.news.yahoo.com/hawaiis-volcano-raining-green-gems-sky-153431147.html

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