I was watching TV on Tuesday on national geography channel about Hawaii and it was so interesting to see this information. They were showing the island of Hawaii will continue to grow. A new volcano, and potentially the next Hawaiian Island, will form to the southeast. This and many other island are made from volcanoes. "Most of the main Hawaiian Islands have reefs of this type, but as time goes on and the islands move further from the hot spot the islands begin to sink and erode." They found old pieces of the land in the ocean and they tried to figure out what could have happened to that land. Because the land was made out of volcanoes and it was not good foundation as the time went by the land slides in the ocean very fast causing big waves in the ocean. It caused tsunami in California millions of years ago. If this happens again we could lose California.
i have found the article about the same thing on this site, the link is below.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/07/0714_030714_hawaiicoral_2.html
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