A volcanic eruption in Hawaii at the Kilauea has devastated the surrounding area, creating an ash cloud that caused a red aviation code to be issued. The warning is meant to prevent pilots from flying through the potentially damaging cloud surrounding the volcano. Many officials monitoring the volcano and nearby families have already been evacuated. Kilauea is one of the most active volcanos in the world, erupting continuously for 30 years.
This eruption can be synthesized to the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, resulting in 57 deaths and many more animal casualties. The volcanic activity that occurred during the eruption consisted of a plume of ash that shot up 16 miles into the Earth's atmosphere - almost a fourth of the distance to space, a 300 m.p.h. landslide, and the lowering of the crater by thousands of feet in seconds.
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