00:00Located along the southern shore of the island, the volcano is between 300,000 and 600,000 years old
00:06and emerged above sea level about 100,000 years ago. It is a shield volcano, sitting on the
00:11southeast flank of the massive Mauna Loe shield volcano, is the youngest volcano, on land, of the
00:17Hawaiian hotspot and not only the most active volcano of Hawaii but at the same time also the
00:22world's active volcano. For the past 200 years, Mauna Loe and Kilor have tended to erupt on
00:28average every two or three years, placing them among the most frequently active volcanoes of the
00:33world. Some intervals of repose between eruptions at a given volcano have been much longer than its
00:38long-term average. Activity at Kilor is driven by the buoyant upwelling of a plume of hot mantle,
00:43which provides the heat to generate magma beneath the volcano. This magma has the potential to erupt
00:48from several different locations. The eruption temperature of claw lava is about 1170 degrees
00:54Celsius and temperature in the tubes is about 1250 degrees Celsius.