Posted on 05/21/2018 11:25:12 PM PDT by cba123
Hi Everyone.
OK this is a bit unusual. I was just on YouTube however, and found this live link, for the erupting volcano there right now.
I will link in the next post, to the video. Live.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Hawaii will be fine, this is normal. This is how the islands were built, this is how they continue to grow.
The volcano isn’t going to blow up, because the lava is basalt, which flows easily.
Wow that one photo has a building right close to where the lava appears to be at.
Thanks for sharing.
I have been watching the video, it’s pretty calming actually.
I learned that the lava at this eruption doesn’t tend to be explosive, so this has a minimal danger for the public. Although the one guy today, actually had some lava fall right on his leg.
Not pleasant, that.
Hilo will be fine. Of course if one has property or vacation plans to the south....
Hawaii volcanoes are mostly just lava - they don’t have the large amounts of water involved that causes explosive ones that toss ten thousand feet into the air. Not so say that pockets of water won’t affect local areas (like a block or so with large boulders) - but the main issue is the lava flowing over one’s property and into one’s house.
The islands are moving on a plate heading to the north. The underground “hotspot” is stationary, so the activity will continue towards the south. (Hilo has already passed over the hotspot - a million years or whatever ago.) A new island will someday form to the south.
It looks like the house is closer than it really is. Having to zoom so much messes up the perspective.
The guy was injured by a lava bomb a couple of days ago, and I’ve wondered if he was at that house. #17 was throwing a lot of lava bombs at the time. I hear it’s pretty much died down now.
I hope that fella didn’t lose his leg. They’d said he might have to but I haven’t heard any more about it.
The explosions are gas expulsions from #18. It’s been blowing for days now. Things are quieter now than they were this time last week. Then it was a constant loud roar with explosions much more often.
The sound is a bit calming tonight.
for background tab:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Live+Music&sp=EgQIA0AB
It seems in the last few minutes, there is a lot more activity in the section of the film, toward the left front.
That only had occasional flames (actually molten rocks) showing earlier.
Now however there seems to be much more activity in that forward section.
Not sure if that is showing a movement of lava, or what that is about.
The main activity behind that is actually lower than it was, but up front there seems to be more, at least at the moment.
I’ve been frantically following this since it started.
It didn’t help much that he’d gone on vacation and we couldn’t get hold of him for over a week.
The imagination runs amok into some very dark places.
He *says* he’s okay but still...20 miles from an apocalypse would be way too close for me.
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Thanks to you both.
I worry.
He is SUCH a nice guy.
In my mind, I see Pompeii, if that explains things a bit.
Repeating...
Here’s a link to a terrific, highly informative doctumentary detailing the history of Hawaii’s volcanoes. It’s a top notch doct. You will almost certainly learn a bunch of things you didn’t know previously.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xNbC0CSLH5o
Yeah - I’m more of a Mount Saint Helens guy with 1/4 of the mountain blown off. (I live near Seattle, waiting for Mount Rainer. It won’t blow like Mt. Saint Helens, but could send a debris flow 30 feet thick and miles wide and miles long that will cover the suburbs built in their path.) Some of those suburbs are built on the old debris flows. It spooks me just driving through some of those valleys. Although in the past 10 years they have made lots of improvements to monitoring the mountain and setting up warning signals. But the nearest town only has something like 7 minutes to head to high ground. At least the schools are near hills and the kids will have enough time to walk up the hill a bit. I just did a job where they were building a new fire station up on the hill to replace the one built in the valley.
Pretty interesting all the different forms of volcanoes. As long as your friend isn’t an idiot posting the videos from 5 feet away of the flowing lava (and perhaps within range of a spluttering blob of lava) - he’ll be okay! And perhaps if he has an extra room he could even make some money renting out the space to reporters, scientists and tourists!
Watch awhile and imagine each spurt as the futile attempt of a damned soul to escape hell’s eternal torments.
Thank you!
Bkmrk.
No, he would not do that.
:)
When Mt St Helen’s blew, my then-sister-in-law was living there.
I need to stop associating with people who live in potential disaster areas...it’s bad for my nerves.
:D
With our new “Appalachian monsoon season” from February to June, I only have to worry about the flash floods and the road dropping out from under me or trees dropping on top of me.
How and will these volcanoes going to affect the climate and air quality in the future. Expect chatter about that forthcoming.
I had the volume on, and could hear human sounds from inside the house this is taken from. @ approximately 7:26am eastern, I heard something zipping up, that wasn’t a winter parka... What room in the house is this eruption being filmed from??? Great footage, BTW!
Has Hawaii been charged higher rates of carbon tax because of all this nonsense!
Pfl
Very cool! It’s the middle of the night there now and it’s particularly interesting to see the hot magma against the dark sky.
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