11-10-2013, 08:21 AM
Yes, thnx for the map, 7Shadows.
Jes' FYI, Kimo, Pu'u 'O'o generally erupted one day a month between 1983 and 1986, the high fountaining episodes shown in the earliest pix of this 30-year long eruption. Bob Decker, the head of HVO until March 1984, was concerned about the formation of lava tubes that would deliver magma to populated, developed areas of Puna that was almost as hot as that at the source. Which is, of course, what has happened from 1986 on...
Jes' FYI, Kimo, Pu'u 'O'o generally erupted one day a month between 1983 and 1986, the high fountaining episodes shown in the earliest pix of this 30-year long eruption. Bob Decker, the head of HVO until March 1984, was concerned about the formation of lava tubes that would deliver magma to populated, developed areas of Puna that was almost as hot as that at the source. Which is, of course, what has happened from 1986 on...