01-30-2020, 04:38 AM
What about the OP's original question ?
"When it erupts, does it ever flow to Puna?"
The answer is it could affect a tiny bit of Puna and that most of Puna is shielded by Kilauea.
In the meantime Mauna Loa doesn't have an east rift zone.It has a Northeast and Southwest rift zone and there have only been 2 large Northeast rift zone eruptions in the last hundred years.I don't see that as a trend of impending doom for Puna.
MAP :
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/mloa-eruptions.html
More:
https://hilo.hawaii.edu/natural-hazards/...tzones.php
"When it erupts, does it ever flow to Puna?"
The answer is it could affect a tiny bit of Puna and that most of Puna is shielded by Kilauea.
In the meantime Mauna Loa doesn't have an east rift zone.It has a Northeast and Southwest rift zone and there have only been 2 large Northeast rift zone eruptions in the last hundred years.I don't see that as a trend of impending doom for Puna.
MAP :
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/mloa-eruptions.html
More:
https://hilo.hawaii.edu/natural-hazards/...tzones.php