Volcano Acting Up #5: Pulsing Incandescence

[Royall]

Carrie they showed the photos on the morning show. Cool photos!

Royall

What goes around comes around!

[Liz]

And here I kept thinking we had it on the wrong channel. :-P
Then I slept in this morning, but we never watch the toob in the am anyway.
Oh well.

aloha, Liz

"The best things in life aren't things."

[Greg]

The Lava Ocean entry has completely stopped today (WED). You may want to reconsider if you were planning to go out tonight. I'll post its resumption if someone else doesn't.

[Chuysmom]

Liz, ahhhhh...to sleep in.

Carrie Rojo

"The sun and moon collide. Isn't gravity a funny thing? The universe explodes apart. All the children sing..." Todd Rundgren

[oink]

Carrie,
I thought I could find the pictures on the KITV website but I couldn't. Are they there somewhere? Very, very cool pictures!

Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.

[Greg]

Thursday AM. Still no lava at the ocean entry site. The summit's deflating, the scientists are scratching their heads.

[dakine]

scratching their heads?

[mella l]

Let's hope Loi'hi is taking the lava now!

mella l

Edit to add link to photos of water spout and ocean entry plume.

http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/PunaWeb.../cd75?b=17&m=t&o=0

[Greg]

Scratching their heads? Ukus? I don't think so. The summit continues to deflate and there is no lava visible anywhere.

This is a rather significant development. My source at civil defense anticipates the eventual re-inflation of the summit and a return of lava in the form of a surface flow.

What's the problem, you ask?

there's no way of telling where it will emerge.

[dakine]

Greg - your suggestion that the current deflation event at the summit of Kilauea, and the associated pause in eruptive activity along the east rift, has the scientist at HVO scratching their heads leaves me curious as to what you are referring to. I can understand that your 'source' at CD may be scratching his/her head because I doubt anyone at CD understands much of the science involved, nor would they be expected to. But when one considers that these deflation/inflation events have been happening for a very long time, and have been studied in detail, and those studies published, I doubt there is much head scratching going on today over the current event. For anyone interested in these events I suggest reading "The Shallow Magmatic System of Kilauea Volcano" By Peter F. Cervelli and Asta Miklius, which can be found at http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/prof-paper/pp...676_09.pdf . That paper really established a base line for the current understanding of the magma storage within the summit area and besides being a pretty good read provides a very good description of the mechanics involved in creating the deflation/inflation events that have been a source of so much speculation here.