#eruption update

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Today’s daily Kiluaea summit collapse event is SHINY: morning condensation/steam shows the pressure wave from the earthquake passing by.

When it's less foggy, the view can be spectacular: 

(That while cliff at left is about 165 feet tall in this clip. formed over the past 3 weeks).

Here’s a playlist of more of these collapses, plus Hawaiian Volcano Observatory’s explanation of why they’re so regular. Also? 

Kilauea’s summit in 2008 (steam coming from brand-new lava lake): 

Kilauea’s summit two days ago, July 29, 2018, after two and a half months of collapses and earthquakes:

And here’s why Kilauea is deflating like a leaky waterbed (note small white spot, a house, at far right. Also those trees are full-sized 100+ foot tall trees):

So yeah. This is what I’ve been blogging about for the past 3 months. Biggest Kilauea eruption in over 200 years.  (All images from HVO/USGS website.)

Since May 3rd, it’s created ~825 acres of new land, and covered 13+ square miles in lava (including land that already existed). Which is a tiny area compared to the Big Island of Hawaii — over 4000 square miles — or compared to the wildfires currently burning in California. 

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Hawaii Volcano Update July 15, 2018

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Kīlauea Volcano Collapse at Summit Footage Today

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Above, Madame Pele in the form of a half-mile wide lava flow, advancing on the private (and expensive) community of Vacationland/Kapoho/Kapoho Bay as seen from later Sunday afternoon or early evening.  This is an area where you can have a million dollar home (on a private black-sand beach with hot springs) but your insurance is capped at $350,000 max no matter what because it’s a lava zone.

Word this AM is that the lava reached the ocean around 10:30pm Hawaiian time Sunday night but as that took place after dark in an area that now has no roads in or out, USGS and/or COH Civil Defense have not yet overflown the site and recorded or verified what happened.

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USGS Update on Kilauea Volcano for May 18, 2018

tl;dr - not as many quakes today, new fissures, lava still flowing

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 Kīlauea Volcano, East Rift Zone Live Panorama of Puʻu ʻŌʻō Crater from the North Rim [POcam] Last Updated 2018-05-02 06:12:08 (HST), 2018-05-02 09:12:08 (local)

Oh wow. Looks like the old lava lake on Pu’u O’o dropped last night and threw ash everywhere, including this lens. And one of the other Kilauea volcano cams may have stopped.

Bookmarking so I can check back later, as the HVO website is a little clunky.

Seismographs, morning of May 2:

Hope the weather clears soon. Madame Pele seems to be cooking up something special (that’s the latest updates; put “lava” into search form to check earlier entries). *pulls up chair and popcorn*

[For anyone just tuning in: Kilauea Volcano is on the SE side of the Big Island of Hawaii, most of the land set aside in a national park. The word “Volcano” on map above marks Kilauea’s summit. 

But the hotspot that fuels Hawaii has been drifting SE, very slowly, so in 1983 a new vent on the SE knee of the volcano opened up, Pu’u O’o (plume of whitish-gray steam). I caught it in 1986 when it opened a lava lake and changed from intermittent to nearly-continuous eruptions. Its lava flows eventually reached the ocean and have  been adding new real estate to Hawaii for decades. 

In 2008 the summit crater of Kilauea, traditional home of the goddess Pele, woke up, blew its nose, and created a little lava lake inside the old crater which has slowly been growing to a respectable-sized one. 

TL;DR: Two lava lakes, one on the summit of Kilauea and one partway down Kilauea in an east vent called Pu’u O’o, extensive lava fields and frequent flows downhill from the latter.]