http://travel-babel.com/2012/01/03/29th-anniversary-of-kilaueas-eruption/

This is an image of a rift eruption, which is one of three types of volcanoes. A rift eruption is when magma comes out of the cracks in a lithosphere, or in other words escapes from the earth’s asthenosphere and into the outside world. It is not known to be very dangerous, but affects our earth in that a lot of magma spurs out causing damage to whatever is around it.