03-07-2011, 05:16 AM
Nice video of red hot lava on CNN a few minutes ago. I hope Pele settles down.
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Puu Oo woke up again this AM
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03-08-2011, 06:41 AM
03-08-2011, 10:08 AM
Puu Oo webcam is clearing up finally. First time I could see through the smoke since Saturdays collapse. Looks pretty dead. TEB vent shut off too. Summit might be shutting down too, hard to tell, but its WAAAAAAY down the hole now.
Everything's coming together on the new vent. Happy the new vent isn't under Leilani Estates.
03-08-2011, 03:50 PM
It's a ripped seam (my words) and it is in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. That's what makes it different and interesting, I think. The seam is well over a mile long. It is the volume of lava showing up on infrared beneath the ground that has the scientists on 24 hour watch. All of the lava drained from Pu'u O'o crater and also from my beloved summit caldera. Or probably a way to put it is that the levels in that vent and crater dropped dramatically and quickly.
So...where did that lava go? It's like a 17 year old boy who suddenly has no pimples. What's going on?! This could just be a blip. But it is an important change that resembles the precursors to some older, significant events. What little I've learned, I gleaned from HNVP's website, which is amazing. 
03-09-2011, 12:07 AM
The seam is really ripping right now:
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hvo/cams/NCcam/
03-09-2011, 10:00 AM
Ripped seam is not bad. When the whole seam is erupting at once, that's whats called a "curtain of fire."
Often new vents start out as curtains of fire, and then narrow to a single point. Which seems to be whats happening at (the newly named) Kamoamoa fissure. I expect that's in reference to Kamoamoa black sand beach which was reclaimed by Pele in 1992. At the moment the curtain has turned into two vents, but watch and I bet it becomes just one. Did anyone see the video of the eruption going back into the giant bottomless crack? This was near the start a few days ago, when it was still a "curtain." http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/ar..._small.mov When I saw the time lapse of Puu Oo draining/collapsing, AND the TEB vent shutting down, AND Halemaumau lava dropping almost completely away, I thought of 1959/1960, and the Kilauea Iki eruption. Iki erupted, formed a huge lake, then suddenly drained most of it back down the vent. Then, a vent opened up way down next to Kapoho, and proceeded to (over six weeks) destroy lots of Papaya fields, homes, and the town of Kapoho itself. Happy the new activity is safely inside the park. This is good news for Kalapana residents. With TEB off, and Puu Oo quiet, they shouldn't get any flows anymore. Any real brave folks want to resettle Royal Gardens? [:0] Oh, just noticed they posted a much better video of Puu Oo collapsing: http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/ar..._small.mov 
03-10-2011, 03:08 AM
So that's what that bright light is that I can see from my house at night in HPP. I thought it was just someones home perimeter light
03-10-2011, 05:34 AM
That was amazing footage of the collapse. I was up there yesterday afternoon in a helicopter got to see a lot but Pu'u O'o was socked in. The fissure was squirting about 60 or more feet into the air. It was truly amazing as to how much lava was coming out and down the pali! It was interesting to listen to the pilot talk about how they try to fly as many different patterns to keep the noise down as much as possible while flying over the subdivisions. Weather has a lot to do with it.
Royall
03-10-2011, 06:05 AM
Interesting. As of this AM, everything is going dark. The last bit of glow left Halemaumau, and the new vents stopped, at least as far as I can tell on the webcams. Just steam and sulfur.
And I noticed, a few new earthquakes way downrift. Like getting close to Pahoa. Uh oh. Everybody start knocking on wood. |
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