Has the first permit been pulled to build condos yet?
Wo Fat Island.
Interesting. Who owns that Island? Can I move there and claim it?
How does Hawaii plan to off set its carbon footprint.?
www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/38655817/at-least-12-injured-after-lava-explosion-near-tour-boat-off-big-island
Someone should run out and put a flag on it.
More taxable land!
As many of you may know, the Hawaiian Islands are a hotspot chain formed as a result of the Pacific tectojic plate drifting slowly over a deep seated stationary volcanic hotspot. The big island is simply the most recent location of the activity. But just off the coast a future island is in the process of emerging.
From Wikipedia...
Loihi Seamount is an active submarine volcano about 22 mi off the southeast coast of the island of Hawaii.[6]
The top of the seamount is about 3,000 ft below sea level.
This seamount is on the flank of Mauna Loa, the largest shield volcano on Earth.
Loihi, meaning “long” in Hawaiian, is the newest volcano in the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain, a string of volcanoes that stretches over 3,600 mi northwest of Loihi.
Unlike most active volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean that make up the active plate margins on the Pacific Ring of Fire, Loihi and the other volcanoes of the Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain are hotspot volcanoes and formed well away from the nearest plate boundary.
Volcanoes in the Hawaiian Islands arise from the Hawaii hotspot, and as the youngest volcano in the chain, Loihi is the only Hawaiian volcano in the deep submarine preshield stage of development.
Loihi began forming around 400,000 years ago and is expected to begin emerging above sea level about 10,000–100,000 years from now.
At its summit, Loihi Seamount stands more than 10,000 ft above the seafloor, making it taller than Mount St.Helens was before its catastrophic 1980 eruption.
A diverse microbial community resides around Loihi’s many hydrothermal vents. ...”
The volcano has remained relatively active since the 1996 swarm and is monitored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
The Hawaii Undersea Geological Observatory (HUGO) provided real-time data on Loihi between 1997 and 2002.
Loihi last erupted in 1996, before the earthquake swarm of that summer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loihi_Seamount
This will be the 51st State, Ecoland. No humans will be allowed to live on Ecoland, but since it will be a state, it will have 2 Senators. The citizens from Hawaii will be allowed to choose the candidates for these seats and, of course, will be the only ones allowed to vote in Ecoland elections.
“possibly a submarine tumulus that built up underwater.”
I had that once. A couple of weeks of ointment cleared it right up.
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