08-26-2014, 01:05 PM
of note... some are saying lava has flowed in the Hawaiian Beaches and Nanawale Forest Reserve area in the past....
That lava flow was 174 years ago..... and was a completely different animal than anything we have seen from little tiny Pu'u O'o...... In its short 26 day life, that 1840 flow was said to put out over 2 times more lava in its 26 days than Pu'u O'o can in 1 year! And this only counts the lava left on land and not any of the masses that entered the ocean, so the amount of lava was actually well more... It made it all the way from a spot in HVNP where Mauna Ulu is now (well West of where Pu'u O'o is now) to the Ocean near Hawaiian Beaches ('Sand Hills') in only 5 days, and eventually extended out the shoreline by 1,300' and made 'Sand Hills'.
Capt Clarence Edward Dutton spends some time in his book 'Hawaiian Volcanoes' describing in journal like detail his walking tour from Puna to Hilo (page151), and describes every lava flow he encountered, including this 1840 flow that made up 'Sand Hills' near WaaWaa (cinder cone-like hills of lapilli made when the hot lava hit the ocean) as being well under 1 mile wide at coast but up to 3 miles wide more inland.
snippet from a very interesting article about the 1840 flow that created 'Sand Hills' near WaaWaa and made it to ocean in 5 days
"The 1840 eruption on Kilauea's east rift zone was one of the most notable of the past 200 years. People reported a spectacle so awesome that "one could read newsprint at night in Hilo (18 miles away) by its light!" The eruption created the picturesque Sand Hills near Honolulu Landing....The eruption was the largest on the lower east rift zone in the past 2,000 years."
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/arch...08_28.html
PS. including the active flow right now, not a single lava flow east of Kaimu is from the very young Pu'u O'o..... including 'Sandhills' in WaaWaa (1840, described above), Kapoho/Cape Kumukahi (1955, 1960), Seaview (1955), Kehena Beach (1955), etc.
These 50+ year old flows were all from the East Rift Zone (a rift across lower Puna)... even the a'a flow that crossed hwy 130 between Pahoa and Black Sands Subdivision was not from Pu'u O'o, it looks to originate from a spot near Iilewa Crater (about 1.5 miles directly north of Black Sand Subdivision) and is also the same flow that some of Seaview is built on and also the same flow that hit ocean (1955) and eventually made Kehena Beach
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
That lava flow was 174 years ago..... and was a completely different animal than anything we have seen from little tiny Pu'u O'o...... In its short 26 day life, that 1840 flow was said to put out over 2 times more lava in its 26 days than Pu'u O'o can in 1 year! And this only counts the lava left on land and not any of the masses that entered the ocean, so the amount of lava was actually well more... It made it all the way from a spot in HVNP where Mauna Ulu is now (well West of where Pu'u O'o is now) to the Ocean near Hawaiian Beaches ('Sand Hills') in only 5 days, and eventually extended out the shoreline by 1,300' and made 'Sand Hills'.
Capt Clarence Edward Dutton spends some time in his book 'Hawaiian Volcanoes' describing in journal like detail his walking tour from Puna to Hilo (page151), and describes every lava flow he encountered, including this 1840 flow that made up 'Sand Hills' near WaaWaa (cinder cone-like hills of lapilli made when the hot lava hit the ocean) as being well under 1 mile wide at coast but up to 3 miles wide more inland.
snippet from a very interesting article about the 1840 flow that created 'Sand Hills' near WaaWaa and made it to ocean in 5 days
"The 1840 eruption on Kilauea's east rift zone was one of the most notable of the past 200 years. People reported a spectacle so awesome that "one could read newsprint at night in Hilo (18 miles away) by its light!" The eruption created the picturesque Sand Hills near Honolulu Landing....The eruption was the largest on the lower east rift zone in the past 2,000 years."
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/arch...08_28.html
PS. including the active flow right now, not a single lava flow east of Kaimu is from the very young Pu'u O'o..... including 'Sandhills' in WaaWaa (1840, described above), Kapoho/Cape Kumukahi (1955, 1960), Seaview (1955), Kehena Beach (1955), etc.
These 50+ year old flows were all from the East Rift Zone (a rift across lower Puna)... even the a'a flow that crossed hwy 130 between Pahoa and Black Sands Subdivision was not from Pu'u O'o, it looks to originate from a spot near Iilewa Crater (about 1.5 miles directly north of Black Sand Subdivision) and is also the same flow that some of Seaview is built on and also the same flow that hit ocean (1955) and eventually made Kehena Beach
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha