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Mauna Loa Volcano in Hawaii not located at a divergent, or spreading, plate boundary. Mauna Loa is the Earth's largest volcano, and it is an intra-plate volcano situated on the Pacific Plate.
Source 8. Mauna Loa is a shield volcano located along the Hawaiian Emperor Chain in the Pacific Ocean. It is the largest volcano on planet Earth; about 74,000 cubic kilometers in all. Moku`aweoweo, Mauna Loa's 3x5 kilometer caldera, rises about 3,850 meters above sea level.ources 5 & 6. It is thought that a hot spot in the mantle has been feeding the chain of islands made as the Pacific plate shifts in a northwest direction. Therefore, Mauna Loa shares the properties of island arc volcanoes, and has mainly effusive eruptions, producing large amounts of basaltic lava in most cases.