08-05-2009, 11:05 AM
Sure Blakey,
I'm honored you think the post is worth sharing!
Lower Hilo has escaped Madame Pele for a longish time, in human terms, not so long geologically. There are Victorians in Hilo ... so that is some 150 years.
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/maunaloa/history/main.html
There are some wonderful accounts of ML eruptions on the USGS site. This one on the 1855 eruption that got within six miles of Hilo, is really cool, and if you read to the bottom it tells the story of how the eruption created the Saddle Road, or the possibility of the Saddle Road, after attempts to hack a road through the central "forest" had failed.
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/COAN/XXI.html
I'm honored you think the post is worth sharing!
Lower Hilo has escaped Madame Pele for a longish time, in human terms, not so long geologically. There are Victorians in Hilo ... so that is some 150 years.
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/maunaloa/history/main.html
There are some wonderful accounts of ML eruptions on the USGS site. This one on the 1855 eruption that got within six miles of Hilo, is really cool, and if you read to the bottom it tells the story of how the eruption created the Saddle Road, or the possibility of the Saddle Road, after attempts to hack a road through the central "forest" had failed.
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/HCV/COAN/XXI.html