Mauna Loa rumbling

[VancouverIslander]

quote:

---

Originally posted by Midnight Rambler

It's also hypothesized that Mauna Loa goes through cycles of greater and lesser activity. Before the 1843 eruption that began the recent round of frequent eruptions, it seems to have been relatively quiet for a while.

---

The problem with this statement is that it assumes there were few eruptive events prior to 1843, but that isn't necessarily the case. 1843 marks the recording of these events and in fact even prior to that one was documented in 1832 by a missionary on Maui, but no evidence of the flow has yet been found. Recorded history of eruptions is missing because nobody was recording it.

Just call me Mike