Giant friction experiment at Kilauea volcano

ScienceDaily
Jul 28, 2021, 10:56 am127 pts
A new analysis of the 2018 collapse of Kilauea volcano's caldera helps to confirm the reigning scientific paradigm for how friction works on earthquake faults. The model quantifies the conditions necessary to initiate the kind of caldera collapse that sustains big, damaging eruptions of basaltic volcanoes like…

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