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Pāhoehoe Lava Flow #3, west of Kalapana, Big Island, Hawai‘i, USA, 2013
Eruption #3, Iceland, 2010
Nature reclaims its own: In the west part of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, an Asian elephant picks through rubble of the Lamjame neighborhood devastated by the 2004 tsunami. Elephants were brought in to pick up heavy debris during clean up efforts in early 2005.
Lava Rock Folds on Mauna Loa, Big Island, Hawai‘i, USA, 2013
Cracked Lava Rock on Mauna Loa, Big Island, Hawai‘i, USA, 2013
At the extreme northwestern edge of Banda Aceh, where the tsunami first came ashore, the destruction is essentially total--except for one incredibly sturdy tree (cypress-like) that managed to stand against the onslaught of the waves. The waves reached to the height of its lowest foliated branch, approximately 45 feet above sea level.
On Hawaii's Big Island, lava flows over a cliff and into the Pacific Ocean; this location is known as the Highcastle ocean entry. This is process by which the Hawaiian Islands are building up from the sea floor and creating new land. The flow is part of an eruption ongoing since May 2002, an eruption known in aggregate as the Mother's Day Flow, from Pu'u 'O'o crater of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii. The temperature of the lava is approximately 2100 degrees Fahrenheit. Steam clouds are water vapor mixed with hydrochloric acid.
Pāhoehoe Lava Flow, west of Kalapana, Big Island, Hawai‘i, USA, 2013
