05-16-2006, 01:13 PM
quote:source: What are our island's worst-case eruption scenarios (part 2)? http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/2005/05_12_01.html
There are also residential neighborhoods within Lava Flow Hazard Zone 1 in the lower east rift zone of Kilauea volcano. All of Leilani Estates, Lanipuna Gardens, and parts of Vacationland Hawaii and Nanawale Estates are within Zone 1.
An eruption in 1840 might be used as an example in this part of Kilauea. That eruption started on May 30 near the summit. A vent opened north of Leilani Estates and produced a lava flow which entered the ocean five days later. Leilani Estates would have missed that lava flows but not the gas emitted from the vent. Nanawale Estates would have been completely inundated. In addition, the flow would have crossed and blocked all roads out of lower Puna.
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