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(11-29-2022, 10:54 PM)HereOnThePrimalEdge Wrote: This photo from the Mauna Kea Visitors Center was spectacular:
https://i.imgur.com/9ItHGxp.jpg
FYI, ran across this attribution.
https://www.facebook.com/100076076450354...WLbMgsdpel
Subaru Telescope Hawaii Outreach
This amazing image needs to be shared again at high resolution! It was taken by Miles Lucas at 6 a.m. this morning, just before sunrise from Pu’u Kalepeamoa. Lucas is a PhD student at the Institute for Astronomy at UH and is designing and implementing upgrades for Subaru Telescope's SCExAO’s visible-light imager.
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I gotta chime in here. I'm still around but not posting so much.
I have to state the obvious posed as a rhetorical question.
How lucky are we all that this eruption has chosen the most favorable path imaginable?
One Thing I can always be sure of is that things will never go as expected.
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Good to read you again KW, and your point is well taken.
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12-01-2022, 04:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-01-2022, 04:46 AM by ironyak.)
Latest USGS map as of 12:30p today (not on USGS yet for some reason) - the flow front remained about 3.6 miles (5.8 km) from the Daniel K. Inouye Highway (Saddle Road).
https://twitter.com/USGSVolcanoes/status...5120477187
Advancement slowing way down.
https://twitter.com/USGSVolcanoes/status...5812157445
#MaunaLoa lava advance slows to a rate of 0.02 mph (24 m per hr). The flows are reaching a relatively flat area & are beginning to slow down; as this happens, the lava flow will spread out and inflate. It may take 2+ days for lava to reach Daniel K. Inouye Highway (Saddle Road).
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It's really too bad that a barrier couldn't be built to prevent this flow from oozing across a major highway.
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We can't even put out scrub brush fires, what makes you think we could stop lava?
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"Since I love postulating (and flat out wild ass guessing), I'll wager we get a long (months) but low intensity eruption."
Can you be more specific on the duration?
For the pool. I'm going the other way. 17 days.
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I'll guess 24 hrs. after it crosses the Saddle Rd.
Certainty will be the death of us.
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(12-01-2022, 03:53 AM)kimo wires Wrote: I gotta chime in here. I'm still around but not posting so much.
I have to state the obvious posed as a rhetorical question.
How lucky are we all that this eruption has chosen the most favorable path imaginable?
Totally agree!
I have been real nervous about the potential flow for months but now, I feel at least a bit relieved. Of course, it ain’t over till it’s over but so far so good.
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12-01-2022, 06:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-01-2022, 06:59 AM by MyManao.)
It's really too bad that a barrier couldn't be built to prevent this flow from oozing across a major highway.
That barrier would have to be big, long, tall. The topography along that stretch of the saddle is pretty flat, and the lava itself viscous enough that it isn't just running around. Instead, as it encounters barriers it's going to pile up and climb over them too.
I'm imagining a large perched pond, a 'secondary' lava lake, forming before the flows get over to the Mauna Kea side. In that case where the lava goes from there can be in any direction. Whichever side of the levies that form is breached first.
And still, if I was wagering, I'd go with kalianna, but move the line a bit. She'll stop once she blocks the Mauna Kea access road.
