{"id":145651,"date":"2022-09-05T13:24:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T18:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/everything-to-know-about-hawaii-volcanoes-national-park"},"modified":"2022-09-05T13:24:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T18:24:02","slug":"everything-to-know-about-hawaii-volcanoes-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/everything-to-know-about-hawaii-volcanoes-national-park","title":{"rendered":"Everything to know about Hawaii Volcanoes National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/everything-to-know-about-hawaii-volcanoes-national-park2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two celebrated volcanoes\u2014one of them very tall, the other very active\u2014frame this large national park. From glowing lava flows and earth-shaking tremors to wind, rain, and waves, the geological and meteorological forces that shaped our planet are fully on display on the Big Island. While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/article\/volcanoes\" target=\"_blank\">volcanism<\/a> rules the day, pockets of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/article\/rain-forests\" target=\"_blank\">rainforest<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/article\/grasslands\" target=\"_blank\">grassland<\/a> shelter rare Hawaiian flora and fauna.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDouble, double toil and trouble; fire burn and caldron bubble.\u201d Shakespeare could just as easily have been describing Hawaiian volcanoes rather than a witch\u2019s brew in <i>Macbeth<\/i>. No other national park produces so much drama on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/volcanoes\/kilauea\/volcano-updates\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kilauea<\/a> is one of the world\u2019s most active volcanoes. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/12\/science\/kilauea-hawaii-volcano-eruption.html\" target=\"_blank\">monthslong 2018 event<\/a> destroyed hundreds of homes, sent massive plumes of ash rocketing into the air, and collapsed nearly 2,000 feet of the crater\u2019s summit. Its most recent and currently ongoing eruption began in September 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two celebrated volcanoes\u2014one of them very tall, the other very active\u2014frame this large national park. From glowing lava flows and earth-shaking tremors to wind, rain, and waves, the geological and meteorological forces that shaped our planet are fully on display on the Big Island. While volcanism rules the day, pockets of rainforest and grassland shelter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}