09-02-2007, 03:14 PM
I gather from Dr. Kauahikaua's report, if the flow continues, it will be quite some time before it would threaten the population of Puna.. I hadn't considered originally, but after watching it these few weeks and his report, it's going to began spreading wider and wider.. So long as it does not create lava tubes, it can take some time to be threatening. And even then it might go threw a tube for a short distance and spread for some time again.. Requiring many tubes or super long tubes to be a danger. And there's a greater likelihood that this fissure’s activity will end, birthing another flow, adding greater odds of a southern trend verses north..
And, without tubes it might continue piling on its self, slowly rising on the ridge creating another possibility of making a southern trend.
It is amazing, once you’ve seen just how big the lava river is, and how fast it flows which has had so much lava flowing almost constantly, and it's gone such a small distance.. The film I’ve seen (not available anymore) of the lava river is very wide and flowing as fast as any river. A river the same size in contrast would have reached the coast last month and be so continuous it would be named by now, with people wanting bridges built.. . . .
I sure am glad Dr. Kauahikaua submitted this report and it's on the web, to be read..
can't believe how close my map, guess-ta-mit is to their findings too. But those are where water would flow, Lava, don't have to do that providing it has a chance to cool..
Edited by - Jeffhale on 09/02/2007 19:31:09
And, without tubes it might continue piling on its self, slowly rising on the ridge creating another possibility of making a southern trend.
It is amazing, once you’ve seen just how big the lava river is, and how fast it flows which has had so much lava flowing almost constantly, and it's gone such a small distance.. The film I’ve seen (not available anymore) of the lava river is very wide and flowing as fast as any river. A river the same size in contrast would have reached the coast last month and be so continuous it would be named by now, with people wanting bridges built.. . . .
I sure am glad Dr. Kauahikaua submitted this report and it's on the web, to be read..
can't believe how close my map, guess-ta-mit is to their findings too. But those are where water would flow, Lava, don't have to do that providing it has a chance to cool..
Edited by - Jeffhale on 09/02/2007 19:31:09