Kilauea: what’s next?

[TomK]

Every year the hotspot should inch its way further southeast.

The direction of the last flow was a statistical anomaly.

Which should make a shift in the opposite direction more likely.

The whole island is made up of lava flows. That means they went east, west, north, south, and everywhere in between. You can't have an island that only has a north shore for example.

How on earth was the last flow a statistical anomaly?