10 Ways Earth Changed Forever in 2018.

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▼ How Earth Changed in 2018
Earth is always changing, and 2018 — a year filled with hurricanes, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes — was no exception. Here are 10 ways Earth changed these past 12 months.
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Kilauea's Eruption
Kilauea's stunning 2018 eruption was its largest in at least 200 years, according to a 2018 report in Science magazine. From late April to early August, the Hawaiian volcano spewed out enough lava to fill 320,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. The lava covered about 13.7 square miles (35.5 square kilometers), scorching Hawaii's Big Island and adding over a square mile (2.5 square km) of land off the coast.
The volcano's lava evaporated an entire lake, left glass strands known as Pele's hairaround the island and even created a new island off the coast.
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New Zealand's moving islands
New Zealand's South Island is now more than a foot closer to its North Island, researchers learned in 2018. The catalyst was the magnitude-7.8 earthquakethat shook the nation in 2016. Since then, the Earth's crust has continued to shift, which is why the two islands have moved nearly 14 inches (35 centimeters) closer to each other than they were before the earthquake.
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