{"id":105168,"date":"2026-05-26T14:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=105168"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:58:27","slug":"big-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/big-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Big Island\u00a0 Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An \u200bearthquake of magnitude 6.0 \u200cstruck near Honaunau-Napoopoo on the \u200bBig Island of \u2060Hawaii recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Big Island<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>largest Hawaiian island<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Hawaii is an<\/span><b> island state of the United States,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>Pacific Ocean.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It covers an area of about 10,432 sq.km., which is larger than all the other Hawaiian Islands combined\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is made up of<\/span><b> 5 volcanoes\u2013 Kohala, Hualalai, Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, and Kilauea.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>most activ<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e of these volcanoes, contributing to the majority of the Island\u2019s growth today, are <\/span><b>Mauna Loa and Kilauea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Mauna Loa,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the quieter of the two, has the <\/span><b>most mass of any mountain on earth.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Kilauea <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is <\/span><b>one of the most active volcanoes on the planet<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and has been <\/span><b>consistently erupting since 1983.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The island features <\/span><b>diverse climates<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ranging from <\/span><b>tropical rainforests to volcanic deserts and snow-capped summits.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Hawai\u02bbi Volcanoes National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is located on the island.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><strong>:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/usgs-evaluates-kilauea-after-magnitude-6-quake-near-hawaiis-big-island\/article71014205.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Island is the largest Hawaiian island. Hawaii is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean. Read more about Big Island, Location, Area, Volcanoes, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":105137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7737],"class_list":{"0":"post-105168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-big-island","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105168"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105187,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105168\/revisions\/105187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}