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If you count the pauses between eruptions in recent recorded history 25 years is the longest, and most recent, 6 years being average.
It is now over 30 years since the last eruption. The longest interval yet.
Mauna loa is due.
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/maunaloa/history/...table.html
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http://www.livescience.com/24262-kilauea...inked.html
One of the theories is that Mauna Loa is less likely to erupt so long as Kilauea is relieving pressure from their shared magma chamber. While they have both erupted at the same time, I'm not aware of any researching indicating that is common.
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That's logical
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Puu Oo has been very active for over a week. The June 27 flow is coming out of a cone adjacent to the main crater, and was back filling it for several days. The wall to the north broke down and it spilled out. This north direction of the breakouts is more in line with the original simulation almost 4 years ago. There is a lot more new vegetation being burned. The orange haze around 6am is from more forest burning. It's tapered off the past couple days, will have to see the next satellite photo which tends to really show what is going on.
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/maps/uploads/image-301.jpg
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It's also hypothesized that Mauna Loa goes through cycles of greater and lesser activity. Before the 1843 eruption that began the recent round of frequent eruptions, it seems to have been relatively quiet for a while.
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Originally posted by Midnight Rambler
It's also hypothesized that Mauna Loa goes through cycles of greater and lesser activity. Before the 1843 eruption that began the recent round of frequent eruptions, it seems to have been relatively quiet for a while.
The problem with this statement is that it assumes there were few eruptive events prior to 1843, but that isn't necessarily the case. 1843 marks the recording of these events and in fact even prior to that one was documented in 1832 by a missionary on Maui, but no evidence of the flow has yet been found. Recorded history of eruptions is missing because nobody was recording it.
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Originally posted by dakine
Actually Ted the activity at Puu Oo has been pretty stable over the last week.
Actually, no, I was watching the plumes of new vegetation burning this morning and there was a definite burning odor in the air this evening on Hwy 130. You are dakine though, so whatever.
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Stable normal and linear ... Like its been for years. Just touching fresh new for you.
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here comes pahoated ruining another thread. idiot.
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Well, the pinheads are exposing themselves. Today's photo showing the vent breach that is burning new forest. On trustworthy news sites, rather than psycho Punatic gurglings.
http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/wp-con...eakout.jpg
BTW, the June 27 flow is now its own caldera, almost the size of the original Pu'u O'o main crater. You people will just never understand why the Hawaii volcanoes are different from continental volcanoes.
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