Hawaii's newest volcanic cone is over 100 feet tall. How will it be named? [View all]

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BY MARK KAUFMAN

The town of Volcano is swaying, back and forth.

“It’s been rocking and rolling,” Bobby Camara, a Volcano resident who spent decades working as a ranger at the nearby Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, said from his Big Island home.

Though the tremors are mild, they still cause the lamps in Camara’s house to gently swing.

“You feel like you’re drunk or on a boat — the quakes are quite subtle," Camara said.

For over three months, the southeastern portion of Hawaii has been quaking and gushing lava, though the vigorously erupting lava recently took a pause.

One of the more stark results of this activity — stoked by the movement of hot rock beneath the ground — has been the creation of a volcanic cone, appearing as a sort of blackened, miniature volcano.

Currently standing at some 100 feet tall, it grew upwards as lava fountained high into the air, and then fell in heaps back to the ground. Volcano scientists informally call it Fissure 8, and it’s known geologically as a “spatter cone.” But what might this new Hawaiian feature be named?

Many local Hawaiians — both native and those that came here from other lands — want to make sure that the cone gets a Hawaiian name.

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