02-02-2018, 06:54 PM
I remember reading about previous more explosive Kilauea eruptions. Although this event wasn't due to an actual explosive eruption, mixing magma/lava with water can make things a bit dodgy.
Found a couple of interesting articles that are related. The first talks about violent eruptions at Kilauea and suspect relates to what Rob mentions although in this case it seems it was a pyroclastic flow from the summit rather than the sad situation these hikers found themselves in:
https://www.livescience.com/17338-hawaii...osive.html
An earlier article discusses how water can cause these explosive eruptions:
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs132-98/
Found a couple of interesting articles that are related. The first talks about violent eruptions at Kilauea and suspect relates to what Rob mentions although in this case it seems it was a pyroclastic flow from the summit rather than the sad situation these hikers found themselves in:
https://www.livescience.com/17338-hawaii...osive.html
An earlier article discusses how water can cause these explosive eruptions:
https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs132-98/