09-14-2014, 08:20 PM
So I'm not in fairy land...
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/arch...01_23.html
"A recent observation revives the questions about the relationship, if any, between the two volcanoes. Continuously recording monitoring instruments allowed us to measure last year's onset of inflation on Mauna Loa at an unprecedented level of detail. We observed that the inflation most probably started on May 12 - the same date that a high-volume lava flow started from a new vent on the flank of Pu`u `O`o cone on Kilauea (the "Mother's Day" flow). If not purely coincidental, the temporal correlation between these events suggests some interaction between the magma systems of Mauna Loa and Kilauea."
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/arch...01_23.html
"A recent observation revives the questions about the relationship, if any, between the two volcanoes. Continuously recording monitoring instruments allowed us to measure last year's onset of inflation on Mauna Loa at an unprecedented level of detail. We observed that the inflation most probably started on May 12 - the same date that a high-volume lava flow started from a new vent on the flank of Pu`u `O`o cone on Kilauea (the "Mother's Day" flow). If not purely coincidental, the temporal correlation between these events suggests some interaction between the magma systems of Mauna Loa and Kilauea."