Turns out, the wind carried the glassy strands 30 miles from Kilauea to Kau. Pele’s hair is formed by gas during a volcanic eruption. When bubbles of gas near the surface of a lava flow burst, it can ...

one person wrote in part. “She is Pele, hear her roar,” another person wrote, referring to the Hawaiian volcano deity. Each eruptive episode has lasted from a handful of hours to more than a ...