Kapoho, Hawaiʻi was a town in Puna district, Hawaiʻi County, Hawaiʻi, located near the eastern tip of the island of Hawaiʻi, in the easternmost end of the graben overlying Kīlauea rift zone. Puna is one of the 9 districts on the Island of Hawai{{okina}}i (Big Island (County of Hawaii Hawaii County is a County located in the US state of Hawai{{okina}}i in the Hawaiian Islands. The State of Hawaii ( or həˈwaɪʔiː Hawaiian: Mokuāina o Hawaii) is a state in the United States located on an Archipelago in the The Island of Hawaii, also called the Big Island or Hawaii Island, is a volcanic Island in the U A graben is a depressed block of land bordered by parallel faults Graben is German for ditch. Kīlauea (kiːlauea is an active Volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, one of five Shield volcanoes that together form the Island of Hawai{{okina}}i A rift zone is a feature of some Volcanoes especially the Shield volcanoes of Hawaii, in which a linear series of fissures in the volcanic Kapoho was completely destroyed by a lava flow from an eruption of Kīlauea on January 28, 1960. Lava is molten rock expelled by a Volcano during an eruption When first expelled from a volcanic vent it is a Liquid at Temperatures Events 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The Excommunication of Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor is lifted Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Kīlauea erupted on January 13, spilling lava out in the middle of a sugar cane field just above Kapoho. Although the main flow of lava flowed into the ocean, a slow-moving offshoot crept towards the town. Despite frantic efforts to divert the flow with earthen barricades or to harden it by spraying water on it, on January 28 the flow entered and buried the town. Nearly 100 homes and businesses as well as a hot spring resort were destroyed. A hot spring is a spring that is produced by the emergence of geothermally heated Groundwater from the earth's crust. A single lighthouse was spared as the lava simply parted around it (it has since been replaced by a modern light). A lighthouse is a Tower, building or framework designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or in older times from a fire and used as an The town was never resettled.
References
- Bendure, Glenda; Friary, Ned (September 1997). "Hawaii — The Big Island", Hawaii, 4th ed. , Australia: Lonely Planet, 322. Lonely Planet Publications (usually known as Lonely Planet or LP) is one of the largest travel Guidebook publishers in the world ISBN 0-86442-489-2.
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