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HVO today is reporting earthquakes every few minutes near Mauna Ulu and The National Park Service has closed Chain of Craters road and South Crater Rim Drive.
Edited by - leilaniguy on 06/17/2007 12:28:55
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Definitely cool stuff.
A heads up to all...don't go up the Mauna Loa Strip Road. Looks like that's where all the tourists have headed since they aren't allowed in most of the park.
We went up there earlier and its packed with lots of rental cars driving too fast.
Robin
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Map shows a lot of activity. This should boost tourism!
http://tux.wr.usgs.gov/Maps/155.25-19.25.html
Royall
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Royall, fascinating to watch the changes with the quakes...felt a few and checked the map and sure enough...
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When I was there two weeks ago past the old kalapana road to the end, I was able to tag along a japanese tour group and follow the leader to where the lava was flowing again to a pool area....pretty neat seeing pools of lava oozing in different directions which i haven't seen in awhile.
If you plan on going to check it out, make sure to try to tag along one of the tour groups, you wouldn't want to accidentally walk into an area that looks solid that may be an active area....but thats at least a 1/2 hour hike from the parking lot.
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Today, activity at Pu'u 'O'o seems to be in remission & there is a shallow magma intrusion up-rift. Makaopuhi crater has widened 35 inches.
http://volcano.wr.usgs.gov/hvostatus.php
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They have a new breakout that they found between Pu'u O'o and the caldera. These pics also show that the inside of Pu'u O'o has dropped over 60 feet. Glad it didn't do that when I was standing in it last September. this is pretty amazing!
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/images.html