Trump's fault
Posted on 05/03/2018 11:02:04 PM PDT by Simon Green
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted Thursday, releasing lava into a residential neighborhood and prompting mandatory evacuation orders for nearby homes.
Hawaii County said steam and lava poured out of a crack in Leilani Estates, which is near the town of Pahoa on the Big Island.
Footage shown on local television showed lava spurting into the sky from a crack in a road.
County, state and federal officials had been warning residents all week that they should be prepared to evacuate, as an eruption would give little warning.
The county has ordered evacuations for all of Leilani Estates, which according to the 2010 U.S. Census has a population of 1,500.
Nearby community centers have opened for shelter.
The U.S. Geological Survey said new ground cracks were reported Thursday afternoon. Hot vapor emerged from a crack and spattering lava began to erupt.
Scientists said areas downslope of the erupting vent were at risk of being covered by lava. Leilani Estates appeared to be at greatest risk, but scientists said new vents and outbreaks could occur and it's not possible to say where.
The eruption comes after days of earthquakes rattled the area's Puna district. A nearby school was closed due to the ongoing seismic activity and several roadways cracked under the strain of the constant temblors.
The Puu Oo crater floor began to collapse Monday, triggering a series of earthquakes and pushing the lava into new underground chambers.
The collapse caused magma to push more than 10 miles (16 kilometers) downslope toward the populated southeast coastline of the island.
USGS geologist Janet Babb said the magma crossed under Highway 130, which leads to a popular volcano access point, on Tuesday night.
Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency closed the area to visitors on Tuesday and ordered private tour companies to stop taking people into the region.
Most of Kilauea's activity has been nonexplosive, but a 1924 eruption spewed ash and 10-ton (9-metric ton) rocks into the sky, leaving one man dead.
Puu Oo's 1983 eruption resulted in lava fountains soaring over 1,500 feet high. In the decades since, the lava flow has buried dozens of square miles (kilometers) of land and destroyed many homes.
Thanks for the link!
Things are shake, rattling, and rolling. Click for the list of 2.5s and up...
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
Trump's fault
Friend of mine who has a mom there just posted “Tsunami” to my page on FB.
Anyone hear anything?
Per NOAA, no tsunami threat...
That's completely ridiculous. Anyone can measure CO2 for as low as $100. They will see a fairly steady rise of about 2-3 ppm per year.
Yes the Mauna Loa is cleaned, but here's the daily (black dots)
The website says "The daily means are based on hours during which CO2 was likely representative of âbackgroundâ conditions, defined as times when the measurement is representative of air at mid-altitudes over the Pacific Ocean."
Other measurement stations have even "dirtier" data since they are closer to respirating vegetation, cities, power plants, etc. But they show the same rise with some southern hemisphere lag, etc.
Okay thanks. Just as you posted that, got word that she just posted again that there was no more tsunami threat. Don’t know if it was a false alarm or she was nervous or what. Again thanks.
As shallow as that quake was, likely just magma movement. Gentle swaying, not a jolt.
News is saying a fifth eruption popped up.
Penn is a dick.
My sis is out there. Lives at Leilani. Just had a monster earthquake minutes ago. She’s terrified
She’s evacuated north to Hawaiian properties many miles north but the house she’s in shook violently and the water tank nearly got destroyed
So, what’s the latest?
The 5.4 earlier was a lot more noticeable than the 6.9 on the west side.
They are worried about parts per trillion of sunscreen compounds in the largest ocean on earth, but there are other factors that can obviously be far more destructive.
Above also has info on what’s going on with the national park, why it’s been closed til further notice.
The major Laki fissure eruption of 1783 in Iceland caused much cooling and crop failure in Europe and probably was a significant factor in the outbreak of the French Revolution.
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