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Kilauea Eruption (1 Viewer)
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PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has erupted from its summit, shooting a dusty plume of ash about 30,000 feet into the sky.
Mike Poland, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, confirmed the explosion on Thursday. It comes after more than a dozen fissures recently opened miles to the east of the crater and spewed lava into neighborhoods.
Those areas were evacuated as lava destroyed at least 26 homes and 10 other structures.
The crater sits within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which has been closed since May 11.
Officials have said they didn’t expect the explosion to be deadly as long as people remained out of park.
Kilauea is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. An eruption in 1924 killed one person and sent rocks, ash and dust into the air for 17 days.
Mike Poland, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, confirmed the explosion on Thursday. It comes after more than a dozen fissures recently opened miles to the east of the crater and spewed lava into neighborhoods.
Those areas were evacuated as lava destroyed at least 26 homes and 10 other structures.
The crater sits within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which has been closed since May 11.
Officials have said they didn’t expect the explosion to be deadly as long as people remained out of park.
Kilauea is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. An eruption in 1924 killed one person and sent rocks, ash and dust into the air for 17 days.
Phil Elliott
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Feel bad for the local people affected, but they knew what they were living on top of. Still amazing to see the continued geological growth of Hawaii as it "moves" over this volcano.
Henry Ford
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Lava has reached the Pacific. So, yeah, that’s super bad. As it happens hydrochloric acid and tiny bits of volcanic glass will form a dense fog.
I can’t believe no one’s talking about this here.
I can’t believe no one’s talking about this here.
bagger
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The Kerminator
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Paging Bobby Brady. Please return the cursed tiki idol to it's appropriate home
Lutherman2112
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The first serious injury has been reported as Hawaii continues to grapple with weeks of volcanic eruptions and lava flow.
The injured man was sitting on a balcony at his home when "lava spatter" - projectile molten rock - landed on him.
"It hit him on the shin and shattered everything there down on his leg," a spokeswoman for the county mayor said.
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The injured man was sitting on a balcony at his home when "lava spatter" - projectile molten rock - landed on him.
"It hit him on the shin and shattered everything there down on his leg," a spokeswoman for the county mayor said.
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Epic Problem
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While the hell that comes along with it should be a concern, I’m more intrigued with the world doing what it naturally does than the dangers of it happening presents. The earth is basically reforming itself. It fascinates me. So much to be learned.
cosjobs
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Chaos Commish
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Twice I've hiked the long ocean front trail to watch the lava pour into the ocean there. It's been happening since the 80s pretty much non-stop. This month's activity is different in that the consistent behavior changed but nothing to panic about yet.
Henry Ford
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matuski
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Henry Ford
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You understand there a difference between dropping an 1”x1” cube of dry ice into a tub of water and dropping one the size of a dinner plate in, right?
Henry Ford
Footballguy
Point of entry in the 1980-whatever eruption flow killed a few people nearby immediately.
matuski
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You understand I lived there, have seen it, right? I have melted shoes walking on freshly cooled flows, walked within yards of a 15-20 foot waterfall of lava flowing into the ocean.
Small flows, bigger flows, fast flows, slower flows.
The images I see today are not really anything different. Unless you have other information?
Henry Ford
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bigbottom
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So sad. My grandparent’s house (sold after their passing a few years ago) is along the coast in Kapoho, just a few miles from Pahoa. It is at risk. It was (still is) a beautiful property with gorgeous fish ponds and lava rock walls and Japanese bridges, accompanied by meticulously manicured gardens filled with beautiful flowers and local foliage. My grandfather was like Mr. Miyagi without the karate. People would regularly travel from Hilo to watch him feed his fish (every day at the same time) and view the property. While it is no longer in our family (we are close with the people who purchased it), the thought of it being destroyed is heartbreaking after the decades my grandfather spent tending to it. Praying for all those in the area.
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matuski
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You were making a claim that these ocean flows were out of the ordinary.. a concern.
I thought perhaps you would have information or data to back that up. My bad.
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Henry Ford
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Yeah. The Hawaii Civil Defense Agency issued a warning about clouds of hydrochloric acid and volcanic glass. I just don’t know if you have that information.
Edit: HCDA issued the warning, USGS supplies a warning about groundwater issues and ash fall
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Henry Ford
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The flow was moving 300 yards an hour headed toward Hwy 137 yesterday. That happen a lot while you lived there?
matuski
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matuski
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Henry Ford
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Chaos Commish
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You said, the lava has reached the ocean that's super bad. That statement started this little pushback because lava has been hitting the ocean daily for decades. This is similar to 1955, not super bad. Less than 30 homes destroyed, some cars and other personal property, a guy burned his leg, it could go on for months. Thousands of acres could be covered. Life will go on. Katrina was super bad. This is some extra volcanic activity at the most active volcano on the planet. If it goes blooey or causes a massive quake, that would be super bad, but that's not something anyone can predict.
matuski
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You seem to be changing your position here. This isn't any bigger a deal than what has been going on... some increased activity for sure, and it is again affecting populated areas. Even this is not new or different however.
I was in Kalapana when they were trying to move historic buildings in 1990.
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matuski
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Henry Ford
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It is super bad when much higher lava flows hit the ocean and in new places. I’m honestly a little surprised anyone’s claiming the current flow from the fissures and an active erupting volcano is the same lava flow as always happens, but I’m not going to argue about an ongoing tragedy. I’m out.
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Chaos Commish
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Leroy Hoard
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Sorry, I could not help but notice that this thread is marked on the front page as "hot".
matuski
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I guess this is where we differ. Relative to the possibilities, this is far from a tragedy.
Some homes, no deaths. People who built/bought these homes there knew this risk. Their homes literally sit on previous flows.
eta - once again I was unaware we were "arguing".
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Henry Ford
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There’s a post of someone on this page talking about his family’s patriarch’s former home. Having lived through the destruction and rebuild of a city, I can’t explain to you how offensive this sentiment can seem to some.
I’m not going to argue with you or anyone else. Continue to say how normal and usual all this is. That’s fine. But I’m certainly not in agreement with you.
matuski
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No reason to get defensive. You started off on the wrong foot with the misleading claim, we let you know. Chill.
Regarding your effort to paint my posts as offensive. Losing a home that used to be yours sucks. The house I lived in at Kailua Beach was torn down.. I get it with the memories, etc. A tragedy? Come on now.
Homes and towns have been lost many times over in the last 30+ years. It goes without saying, it will happen again. Whether or not you take offense to that..
Ned
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Henry Ford
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I’m not defensive. I’m just honestly flabbergasted at this response to people losing everything. Good luck to you.No reason to get defensive. You started off on the wrong foot with the misleading claim, we let you know. Chill.
Regarding your effort to paint my posts as offensive. Losing a home that used to be yours sucks. The house I lived in at Kailua Beach was torn down.. I get it with the memories, etc. A tragedy? Come on now.
Homes and towns have been lost many times over in the last 30+ years. It goes without saying, it will happen again. Whether or not you take offense to that..
The General
Footballguy
Yup. Hiked on the volcano on the Big Island years ago at night, encouraged by the park rangers to do this. Lava flowing, oozing more like it, all around. Can’t believe I didn’t die. Was one of the coolest things I have ever seen / experienced.
El Floppo
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Tbh, as a HI outsider myself, I saw your first post and wondered what I was missing in terms of the alarmist aspect...assumed it was somewhat normal for this to be happening and very glad no lives were lost. But your post made me think there was some new and unusual threat I hadn't heard about yet... Which certainly caused alarm for me.
As I'm reading it- the others, including Jon, aren't poo-pooing the loss there, more toning down those alarm bells...which i appreciate.
The General
Footballguy
I think they are talking about visiting the Big Island in general, no?
The volcano is on one part of it, hours away from main tourist side.
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The General
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The island is really big and the volcano is in one corner. Not an expert but I think the volcano is more of an oozer (technical term) than a Mt St Helens situation.
The General
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Again the island is really big. Not sure what they are allowing people to do but hopefully they are keeping people safe.
Ive been to the Big Island a bunch wouldn’t be changing my plans if I had tickets now.
Haven’t really looked into it much, just assume they are doing things to keep people safe.
bigbottom
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I heard from my mom (who has been in touch with my relatives on the Big island) that due to the winds, the air quality on the Kona side (where the resorts are) has been affected, apparently more so than Hilo, which is much closer to the volcanic activity. But that’s second/third hand.
Lutherman2112
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This is correct. The magma under Kilauea contains a low amount of silica; it easily flows and releases gas. High silica is the opposite and creates the typical cone-shaped volcano like Mount Fuji (Japan), Mount St Helens (USA) and Mount Pinatubo (Philippines).
Chaos Commish
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It's almost always worse on the Kona side, south Kona to be specific, and south Kona highland coffee country to be very specific. That's just from the standard (and fairly consistent) trade winds. As Matuski said, the people there are used to it and no when to avoid the bad air quality. The alarmism tourists are inundated with on a trip to see the lava makes you not want to do it. But the reality is much different and the guides chuckle a little at the fear mongering because they deal with it daily.
