Mauna Loa erupting

[MyManao]

I kind of wonder if it's not the hydraulic system but the relationship between the land forms themselves 

Following up on that thought.. here is one of the most beautiful images, imo, of the latest eruption..

From.. https://twitter.com/USGSVolcanoes/status...12/photo/1


This is an interferogram of the Mauna Loa summit and upper flanks showing deformation changes from before the eruption began through the morning of December 2. In other words not the entire amount of change, but still considering that the change was greatest at the beginning of the event this is indicative of the overall story told by the ground motion.. and shows the volcano losing over 50cm (20 inches) of height from the edifice overall as the upper Northeast and the Southwest Rifts are lifted and spread..

To think that Kilauea 'feels' these changes, and acts, responds, sympathetically makes a bunch of sense to me.. after all, they're alive.

This stuff gives me chicken skin.. especially when I think back to the earlier rod and level we used to measure deformation before digital and satellite technology was developed..