Kilauea Eruption 12/23/24

[MyManao]

I'm not sure I understand the premise here.

I don’t know what to tell you Tom. I don't find any published material that includes a discussion, with examples, of the diurnal as recorded by the tilt network here.. For me it’s just common knowledge.. stuff discussed around the dinner table.. it’s baked in ever since we first got continuous tilt.. around 1990.. it’s been a part of what we see and talk about. Instead all the published material, at least what I find on the freely available side, use tilt to describe events rather than go into the nuances of the tilt’s background noise itself. But hey, if you happen to run into anyone else that looks at all that regularly ask them what they think.

I have already pointed out that it's easy to average out the long term on Mauna Loa’s summit record in that it’s flat.. the only real change we see is the diurnal itself. I am only playing with the difference here at Kilauea where we see the diurnal superimposed on the inflation and what it might mean to the overall rate of change being recorded if we subtract those daily steps and make the otherwise average rate of change the same throughout the time being recorded. 

But hey, if you have another interpretation..

As to whether this all could mean there's a corresponding increase in the influx of magma, verses those steps are purely atmospheric, that’s getting down in the weeds. Is the expansion of the rock asymmetrical and as such is it somehow creating a larger void space below it that is hydraulically responded to? Or, is the pressure of the rock’s expansion down as much as it is up? I lean more to the later, and as such speak in terms of chopping off the steps, subtracting them from the total, rather than taking the overall rate of change at face value.