Hawaii volcano latest: Footage shows blue flames bursting through cracks in road after eruption
Footage has captured rare blue flames bursting through cracks in a road in The volcano produces methane when hot lava buries and burns plants and trees. When this gas flows up through cracks in the road it ignites and produces a blue flame. "It's very dramatic. It's very eerie," Jim Kauahikaua, a US Geological Survey scientist, said, adding it was just the second time he had seen blue flames during an eruption. The methane can also cause explosions when it ignites while trapped underground, tossing rocks into the air, said Wendy Stovall, a ...
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