which rests on top of the island chain’s hotspot, the subsidence rate was at around just 0.6 millimeters per year. However, they also recorded areas that were sinking a stunning 40 times that ...

As islands like O’ahu very slowly drift from the magmatic hotspot that once formed it ... Now, a new study from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa reports that the island chain may be reversing course ...