Italy’s Mount Etna, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, has erupted twice in less than 48 hours, spewing a fountain of lava and ash into the sky. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/mount-etna-erupts-feb2021…
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Hiker finds bombs dropped into Mauna Loa volcano in 1935
A hiker in Hawaii rediscovered evidence of a 1935 attempt to use bombs to redirect a lava flow from Mauna Loa’s flank. Source: https://www.livescience.com/mauna-loa-bomb-found.html
The US Army Bombed a Hawaiian Lava Flow. It Didn’t Work.
An anonymous reader quotes the New York Times: Why were two apparently unexploded bombs sticking out of a lava tube on Hawaii’s Mauna Loa? That’s what Kawika Singson, a photographer, wondered in February when he was hiking on Mauna Loa, the colossal shield volcano that rises 55,700 feet from its base below the sea to its summit. Singson had stumbled upon…