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Can it tip over like Guam. That would be really bad.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

There are several possibilities. Mauna Loa is 4,169 meters above sea level, and 5,000 meters below, with one ocean flank close to vertical. Think of that gigantic, below sea wall, being pressured from within. If it bursts... Here are the volcanoes of the Big Island. http://i.imgur.com/Fz4zsQX.png Interestingly enough, Mauna Loa and the more active Kīlauea do not share a magma pool, so erupt independently from each other. But the much more massive Mauna Loa is slumping eastward along its southwestern rift zone, leveraging its mass into Kīlauea and driving the latter eastward at a rate of about 4 inches per year.