Geology Picture of the Week, May 19-25, 2002

NASA Earth Observatory ^ | May 2002

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The Big Island of Hawaii

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This would be a better image if I could view the larger versions linked on the page, but I haven't had any success with them.

Three notes: the flows from the current Pu'u O'o eruption are clearly visible on the southeast coast (north of Kilauea proper), and the lava flows from the last eruption of Hualalai (which were big and fast in 1800-1801) can be seen on the lower northwest coast. And the flows from the 1959 flank eruption at Kapoho (which as described in National Geographic was one reason I had an abiding interest in volcanoes most of my life) are seen at the eastern tip of the island.

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Looks like something I expelled after a really bad head cold.

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Last year I was working on an EIS and was charged with addressing "geologic hazards" for an offshore California project. The concept of mega-tsunamis caused by large-scale sloughing of the Hawaiian islands is enough to make the hair on your neck stand up!