08-22-2014, 12:31 PM
Update - From Today: (*Snipped - More at link)
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/26351...tial-areas
KILAUEA VOLCANO, BIG ISLAND (HawaiiNewsNow) -
The June 27th lava flow, named for the date it began erupting, continues to advance to the northeast of its vent on the flank of Pu‘u ‘O‘o on Kilauea Volcano's East Rift Zone. As of Friday, August 22, the front of the flow was 6.6 miles northeast of the vent. According to the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) Scientist-in-Charge Jim Kauahikaua, the lava flow is not an immediate threat to residential areas or infrastructure downhill of the flow, but could become one in weeks to months if lava continues to advance.
HVO scientists, who mapped the flow during an overflight Friday morning, report that the flow was active along two fronts. The northern branch was advancing northeastward across fairly flat land, while the southern branch had flowed into a ground crack within the rift zone. By tracing the steam issuing from the crack, lava is inferred to have advanced 0.9 miles over the past four days, putting it 2.4 miles from the eastern boundary of the Wao Kele o Puna Forest Reserve.
The difficulty in forecasting the flow's exact path is that “downhill of the flow” can be affected by subtle variations in topography (shape and features of the ground surface), changes in lava supply (volume increases or decreases), and where and how lava enters or exits ground cracks along the rift zone.
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/26351...tial-areas
KILAUEA VOLCANO, BIG ISLAND (HawaiiNewsNow) -
The June 27th lava flow, named for the date it began erupting, continues to advance to the northeast of its vent on the flank of Pu‘u ‘O‘o on Kilauea Volcano's East Rift Zone. As of Friday, August 22, the front of the flow was 6.6 miles northeast of the vent. According to the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) Scientist-in-Charge Jim Kauahikaua, the lava flow is not an immediate threat to residential areas or infrastructure downhill of the flow, but could become one in weeks to months if lava continues to advance.
HVO scientists, who mapped the flow during an overflight Friday morning, report that the flow was active along two fronts. The northern branch was advancing northeastward across fairly flat land, while the southern branch had flowed into a ground crack within the rift zone. By tracing the steam issuing from the crack, lava is inferred to have advanced 0.9 miles over the past four days, putting it 2.4 miles from the eastern boundary of the Wao Kele o Puna Forest Reserve.
The difficulty in forecasting the flow's exact path is that “downhill of the flow” can be affected by subtle variations in topography (shape and features of the ground surface), changes in lava supply (volume increases or decreases), and where and how lava enters or exits ground cracks along the rift zone.