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RE: Volcano acting up - Haole - 08-21-2007
Oh, wow, look at the new USGS map with neighborhoods!
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/maps.html
RE: Volcano acting up - leilaniguy - 08-21-2007
Jim Kauahikaua is a good man, I sent him an email at HVO about 2 years ago when my and my neighbors yards began to crack open. He came out here that weekend, was very interested and informative, assured us that it was just a little settling, not impending doom.
RE: Volcano acting up - JerryCarr - 08-21-2007
Maybe somebody told the guys at USGS-HVO that they were outclassed in the map department by some guys on Punaweb!
RE: Volcano acting up - emorata - 08-22-2007
i wonder how they can detect if its all surface flows or if any of the older lavatubes are also filling up with magma and being a cause to recent earthquakes....looks like its about 6 miles to pahoa town if you draw a straight line....
RE: Volcano acting up - glennoid - 08-22-2007
I doubt lava tubes filling up would actually cause earthquakes. It's usually pressure in the underground-to-surface paths, major earth settling, or plate movement (such as with this last one) that do. What we should be worried about is the surface flows turning into tubes, that then yield "breakouts" much lower down on the slope.
RE: Volcano acting up - mella l - 08-22-2007
Perhaps if the current flow crusts over and keeps molten lava inside this will build a new lava tube? I'm not positive that is how it works, but think it is this way and not old lava tubs filling up. Any ideas on this?
mella l
RE: Volcano acting up - glennoid - 08-22-2007
Yes, pretty much. And hardened lava is apparently a great insulator for hot liquid lava. =(
RE: Volcano acting up - glennoid - 08-22-2007
By the way, this just in regarding the new flow...
Mayor Harry Kim is in the process of "coordinating all responders to a situation developing due to the Kilauea eruption". So they are definitely aware of it...
RE: Volcano acting up - bystander - 08-22-2007
Man I can see realestate prices plummeting in all of Puna if the lava does get to some houses or crosses highway 130.
RE: Volcano acting up - Tahunatics - 08-22-2007
quote:
Mayor Harry Kim is in the process of "coordinating all responders to a situation developing due to the Kilauea eruption". So they are definitely aware of it...
Glennoid, where did you hear that? We just started construction on a new home in Hawaiian Acres and this is getting pretty nerve racking!