A new eruption just started here in Hawaii

-AINOKEA- said:
Just had 2 more breakouts last night and at least 2 houses on fire. They deployed the nasty girls to help keep everyone away.

So my dad was a geologist here and he said this is almost identical to the eruption in the 50s around the same area. This is all old lava that’s been sitting in the tubes for a while, hence it’s moving very slowly and cooling fast once it reaches the surface. Once all this older and cooler lava gets flushed out, fresher lava coming from the volcano up rift will come down and it’ll be much more fluid, and probably make another ocean entry. Until this thing stabilizes, there won’t be any public access so I guess if you want to see it, you’re gonna have to check out YouTube or the local news station. I think cnn had like a 10 second clip on it. Lol.

Edit: here is a link to a usgs webcam looking at the east rift zone and the neighborhood in which it is currently erupting.

https://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/cams/panorama.php?cam=PGcam


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Ha, Nasty Girls. Every time I hear them referenced as that I laugh a little.


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I work in emergency management, focusing on some unique and natural hazards, I totally forgot about volcanoes until I was at a conference a couple months ago in WA. That’s another hazard I never really thought about being from the SW. Then this all kicked off, just crazy, I can’t imagine working this disaster.


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Been trying to understand the history a little more for Kilauea. Came across this video published late 2017 from the USGS. It's a little long, but gives great history of the volcano and a glimpse of the activity over the years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=29&v=gNoJv5Vkumk

Update from a couple hrs ago. The video aspect is pretty amazing to actually watch vs just pics ive seen in news article. Some other cools vids also available on the USGS YT channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8aI7om5YIA

Also some really cool maps can be found here, for those interested.

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/maps_uploads/image-421.jpg

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/multimedia_maps.html
 
Brute said:
I'm not surprised at all...after living in the islands for 41 years, nothing surprises me here. We are still paying for a rail system that is several BILLION dollars over budget that goes nowhere...
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What surprised me with the rail system was that they built it as an elevated train all the way out to Kapolei over open fields. On the mainland they build main line track for a million dollars a mile on that type terrain. What a boondoggle for the taxpayers!


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Brute said:
Howz the vog at pops place?
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There’s nothing now with the trade winds, but when it shifts to south winds, it’ll be hell especially with the ash. A lot of people think ash is nothing but powder but there’s actually a lot of glass in it. First instinct when driving is to turn on wind shield wipers but that will ruin the windshield faster than anything else.


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-AINOKEA- said:
There’s nothing now with the trade winds, but when it shifts to south winds, it’ll be hell especially with the ash. A lot of people think ash is nothing but powder but there’s actually a lot of glass in it. First instinct when driving is to turn on wind shield wipers but that will ruin the windshield faster than anything else.


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Yup...and not so good for the lungs either...
 
-AINOKEA- said:
Thanks! I’m clear of the fault/lava path but not so much if the Magma hits the water table. We won’t necessarily be dealing with the explosion or projectiles but we will definitely be dealing with the ash fallout which is a massive PITA.

It just blows my mind that they built that geothermal plant on a known fault zone and never had the means to transport the hazmat this entire time. If that thing ignited there would probably be a massive crater right there that would’ve taken out a lot of homes. They’re very lucky that didn’t happen. We definitely appreciate you guys provided the needed equipment to take that stuff out of there. [emoji482]
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Haha, totally agree. I'm born and raised on the Hilo (Volcano/Puna) side. My dad worked at Puna Geo, and would always laugh about the amount of Pentane they kept sitting on lava zone 1. So crazy.
 
-AINOKEA- said:
I was up at my dad's house today and just to happened to be there during a decent rock collapse in the summit. Here are a couple videos from my drone... preferably in order. The best parts of the clips are within the first 5 seconds of the first one though ;)

https://youtu.be/I0QkhSO1mrs

https://youtu.be/wjHy5eaQSMw
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Mother Nature is incredible. Thanks for sharing and you weren't kidding on how close he is. Hopefully it doesn't catastrophically let loose. Do regular dust masks help in the event you find yourself in an ash plume?

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jesse3638 said:
Mother Nature is incredible. Thanks for sharing and you weren't kidding on how close he is. Hopefully it doesn't catastrophically let loose. Do regular dust masks help in the event you find yourself in an ash plume?

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Sure they’ll help with the “ash” stuff but there will always be sulfur dioxide that’ll get through. Over the counter masks won’t guard against that.


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