When, not If lava crosses 130...

[Delta9r]

I've been unable to locate the news article, but there was a lady in Puna (Nanawale? Not sure.) who was found dead in a crack in her backyard where she apparently was trying to rescue a puppy and got stuck.
Not sure how many years ago this was, maybe 10 or so years?

That said, if/when lava blocks Kea'au - Pahoa road, my choice of upper Puna will have proven to have been a good choice.
However, how many here remember the Mauna Ulu eruptions of the early 1970's?
The summit eruptions of Mauna Loa?
I saw them all, and my thinking is that an eruption from anywhere along the East Rift Zone, mauka of Pu'u O'o, could happen at any time.
Napau would be the worst case scenario for Fern Forest on down the hill, Mauna Loa could take out Hilo, or North Kona hotels and beaches, and the idea that since one vent has been erupting continuously for 30 + years this precludes an outbreak elswhere is an idea which is not based on actual science, nor is such an idea based on historical fact.

After all, it's the same tectonic hot-spot that feeds all of our volcanoes. Hualalai is also not extinct, and Haleakala has erupted in relatively recent historic times, so who knows?

http://www.nps.gov/havo/faqs.htm

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