Pu'u O'o rises

[oink]

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Those were breaches of the perched lake rim

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Not the way I read it. They have mentioned lake rim breaches several times and this was worded as "crater rim".

Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.

[csgray]

Oink,
I have been watching the camera pretty constantly, since I am married to my laptop 18 hours a day right now, planning for my next year's classes, and I can promise you the lava has not yet left the crater. Someone probably just got sloppy with their language in the report, if you read lower down they say in every report that all lava is still confined to the crater of Pu'u O'o. If/when it breaches Pu'u O'o it will be a prominent mention in the report, as well will make the local news, because the park service will have to keep people from hiking in to the flow again.

Carol

[Kelena]

Wow. The crater within the crater that is being created by the lava lake within it is getting higher and higher. It looks to be as high now as parts of the outer crater rim. However, it has not built up high enough on the sides for it to spill over the outer crater. When it spills, it just makes the floor a little higher. Hard to tell how far it has to go. I would say about 50 feet.

That is a lot of lava in that lake, though, and so Pu'u O'o is where the action is.

[Radiopeg]

While still missing one input, the camera view is in color today. Don't tell me I imagined it was always black and white!

[PaulW]

I think it's the weather that's usually gray up there, not the camera.

[csgray]

It depends on if the camera is in low light mode or not, sunny days we get color, cloudy dark days, we get gray scale. It looks pretty amazing when you can see all the different colors in the cone.

Carol

[dobanion]

Check out the time lapse thermal video here:

http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/images.html

Looks like the last few days of the video, that the crater floor was inflated, pushed up from below, not just built up with lava.

It's getting interesting.....for sure.

[Royall]

amazing video. With that much activity, it can't be too long before it is pushing out of the crater. I'd like to see it come back down the pali, such an awesome sight. I guess the people that are living down in Kalapan don't feel the same way though.

Royall

Hale O Na Mea Pa`ani

[csgray]

It will be interesting to learn what the next round of measurements by the USGS team show in terms of how much the crater floor has risen. To my layman's eye the perched lake and crater floor sure seem to have come up a lot higher, and might even be higher than the lowest lip of the older crater rim. The fact that all the extension is all in the upper cone, while the lower flanks have stayed mostly the same, may explain why the perched lake still hasn't collapsed like the earlier time lapse events dakine posted. That new mass of magma right under the perched lake just keeps getting bigger.



Carol

[Kelena]

Yes, the crater within the crater (CWTC) is higher, in places, than the rim of Pu'u O'o. And today, there was a very bright, heavy flow on the right side of the CWTC just a leakin' out on into the floor of Pu'u O'o. The lake within the CWTC will have to fill up all of the available space on the floor of Pu'u O'o before it spills over the rim. So, for now, we have a kind of catch basin for all that molten goodness. It is filling up very fast though. This is a very vigorous flow. Based on this rate I would say that we will be a-spillin' in 'bout 10 days or so (Imastickin' to my guns, though on my original guess).

Really does look like it is going to spill over soon, though, on the right side of the frame in the webcam.