Puna Is Normal

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Good news, the alert level for Kilauea was lowered yesterday to normal.

The Hawaii Volcano Observatory lowered the alert level at Kilauea from “advisory” to “normal” on Tuesday, signifying what the agency says is a return to a non-eruptive state.

“Now we’re in this new phase of magma recharge on the volcano,” explained Matthew Patrick, a geologist with the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. “Magma is basically creeping into the summit magma chamber. It’s also creeping into the east rift zone magma storage system.”
Simply put, the changes as far as alert levels are concerned mean there’s little to worry about at Kilauea for the time being.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/03/27/...ptive-era/

[VancouverIslander]

I wonder how long this phase lasts?

Me ka ha`aha`a,
Mike

[ironyak]

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kil...tatus.html
"On the basis of these observations, we think it most likely that the next eruption of Kilauea will take place in the caldera within a few years, and that the next eruption on one of the volcano's rift zones will be in a decade or longer. This prognosis assumes a return to Kilauea's general style of behavior for the past 200 years.

There remains the possibility that Kilauea's behavior may return to the dominantly explosive 300 years preceding the early 1800s. Monitoring and ongoing analysis by HVO may be able to determine in advance which style of behavior will eventually prevail, but it is currently too early to tell."

[EightFingers]

“Puna is normal”

Is just the rest of them that are weird!

[bananahead]

it will erupt again .... AFTER 400 idiots rebuild in Kapoho area...
1960 flow... zero homes on Kapoho Bay....
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...-19-en.png

2018 flow 500+ homes lost along Bay and South of it all built on recent (post 1960) flows...

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[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

AFTER 400 idiots rebuild in Kapoho area...

Kapoho was a beautiful place to live, even if it was temporary.
When all is said and done, very few will look back on their life and say, "sure glad I lived someplace flat & cold & dull with nothing worth mentioning outside the picture window. And nothing bad ever happened, that's for sure, except the occasional blizzard, tornado, flood..."

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Interviews with folks who moved back home after the lava flow:

The main headache she says is access into the community on the makeshift road, which only residents can use for now - not repairmen, or farmworkers.
But it's all worth it, she adds
"This is our future. This is our kids' future. The farm is my kids' college fund."

https://news.yahoo.com/hawaii-residents-...23134.html

“The President just said wind energy causes cancer and please young people save us from this nightmare...” - Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz, 4/2/19

[alaskyn66]

I don't get the hype of having an ocean view. Unless you get to see a cruise ship sink. There is nothing to look at. Now watching my neighbor try to mow his lawn..that's YouTube meme stuff.

And almost worth buying the expensive rum.

[TomK]

The Trib reports on the ongoing process for naming Fissure 8. Seems it might take a while (and cost quite a bit, I assume):

https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/201...-accepted/

"The Permitted Action Group, as it is called, is expected to meet twice with the Puna community during the course of the year to recommend names for fissure 8. The volcanic vent was one of two dozen that formed during the lower East Rift Zone eruption, and produced its most voluminous lava flows.

Action group members are Marques Marzan of Bishop Museum, Brad Ka‘aleleo Wong of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Noenoe Silva."

[Guest]

Enjoy the sea vicariously AK ... go for PUSSERs. Get both !!!