09-07-2007, 03:15 PM
Yes, Dakine, we agree about the lava tube. If it forms a tube (which it will often do if it hangs around long enough), its off to the races.
Although the flow is about three times higher than has been usual during the period 1983-2007, HVO says <<It would take an increase in the eruption rate to get the currently forming aa flows to advance more than the three to four miles currently observed.>>
That being, pictures are worth a thousand words. I check the webcam while it is dark in Hawaii. Spooky. It is a very long ribbon of fire that looks like it is getting longer and longer. As you point out, the flow rate is actually pretty high, but if I read the report correctly it is not high enough at this point to send it far fast.
Of course, if there were a slow leak of a volcano within 7 miles of my subdivision here in Southern California, there would be panic in the streets.
Entirely different point of view over there.
Although the flow is about three times higher than has been usual during the period 1983-2007, HVO says <<It would take an increase in the eruption rate to get the currently forming aa flows to advance more than the three to four miles currently observed.>>
That being, pictures are worth a thousand words. I check the webcam while it is dark in Hawaii. Spooky. It is a very long ribbon of fire that looks like it is getting longer and longer. As you point out, the flow rate is actually pretty high, but if I read the report correctly it is not high enough at this point to send it far fast.
Of course, if there were a slow leak of a volcano within 7 miles of my subdivision here in Southern California, there would be panic in the streets.
Entirely different point of view over there.