Mauna Kea grew up from the ocean floor to about 31k feet in only a million years though. Last eruption was 3500 years ago.
I went to visit Halemaumau Crater last year. Gates of HELL. Fearsome and awesome to behold like I cannot describe as well as Mark Twain did. No kidding that when the Christian missionaries went to Hawaii to preach the gospel of the angry Judeo-Christian sky god, the Hawaiian natives said "Yeah, well, we have a fickle and ten times angrier volcano goddess named Pele that we can actually SEE." then they took the missionaries to Halemaumau Crater and watched them pee themselves.
The people living in the east Mediterranean and middle east area are no stranger to Volcanic carastrophies and powerful earthquakes, you know. The area of the Bible, of the “angry Judaeo-Christian sky god” of which you speak. Is this some sort of one-upmanship going on here, the pagan gods (little “g”) of the Polynesians having it one up over “the angry Judaeo-Christian god” (which you have with a little “g” I notice)?
From my Christian perspective, the God of the Bible (big “G”) does not come in second to ANY pagan god, the Polynesian kind or any other kind. As the creator of heaven and earth, the Hawaiian volcanoes, and the huge one this article is about, he knows all about having created them. There is only one God, the God of the Bible (big “G”), pagan gods (little “g”) only exist in the minds of pagans.
You may not have meant for your post to be taken this way, if so I apologize, it just appeared this way to me.