Prophet Zacharia Posted December 21, 2020 Share #1 Posted December 21, 2020 Is active again. Overnight earthquake and lava flow. I didn’t think we’d see surface lava again for a long time after the 2018 eruption. C3D07F93-4A2A-4806-BEAB-755AE9ED5368.webp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted December 21, 2020 Share #2 Posted December 21, 2020 Sounds like an earthquake "startled" it. https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/21/us/kilauea-hawaii-volcano-eruption/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted December 21, 2020 Share #3 Posted December 21, 2020 Uh oh. Trouble in paradise. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted December 21, 2020 Author Share #4 Posted December 21, 2020 58 minutes ago, Philander Seabury said: Uh oh. Trouble in paradise. Lack of surface lava was a mild bummer during my most recent trip. Lava in the park is good! But Lava at people’s homes is bad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted December 21, 2020 Share #5 Posted December 21, 2020 Who would build a house in a potential lava flow area anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted December 21, 2020 Author Share #6 Posted December 21, 2020 3 hours ago, maddmaxx said: Who would build a house in a potential lava flow area anyway? Land is cheap? But yes, living in zone 1 or downhill from there seems crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted December 21, 2020 Share #7 Posted December 21, 2020 5 hours ago, Philander Seabury said: Uh oh. Trouble in paradise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted December 21, 2020 Author Share #8 Posted December 21, 2020 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted December 21, 2020 Share #9 Posted December 21, 2020 That would be a rude awakening in the middle of the night for a lava flow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted December 21, 2020 Author Share #10 Posted December 21, 2020 1 hour ago, Philander Seabury said: That would be a rude awakening in the middle of the night for a lava flow! There may have been other warnings that preceded the flow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted December 21, 2020 Share #11 Posted December 21, 2020 40 minutes ago, Prophet Zacharia said: There may have been other warnings that preceded the flow. Are people who live near flow areas really surprised by lava flows? Doesn’t it flow really slowly, like inches/feet per hour? Id think fires, smoke & such would tip them off... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted December 21, 2020 Author Share #12 Posted December 21, 2020 6 minutes ago, ChrisL said: Are people who live near flow areas really surprised by lava flows? Doesn’t it flow really slowly, like inches/feet per hour? Id think fires, smoke & such would tip them off... This is the lava flow that produced the picture I took above. But this was proceeded by a serious of earthquakes and other smaller lava flows in the area. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted December 21, 2020 Share #13 Posted December 21, 2020 5 minutes ago, Prophet Zacharia said: This is the lava flow that produced the picture I took above. But this was proceeded by a serious of earthquakes and other smaller lava flows in the area. Wow yeah that’s movin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted December 21, 2020 Share #14 Posted December 21, 2020 1 hour ago, ChrisL said: Wow yeah that’s movin! It was time lapse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted December 21, 2020 Author Share #15 Posted December 21, 2020 23 minutes ago, Philander Seabury said: It was time lapse. Photoshopped. You can tell by the pixels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted December 22, 2020 Share #16 Posted December 22, 2020 Here's how I first learned Kilauea had a goddess named Pele. When the "April Fools Blizzard" of 4/1/75 (the day AFTER people had to take steel-studded snow tires off cars) dumped 3 feet of snow on Chicago, a lot of us IIT Chemistry grad students had been running lab experiments and syntheses all through the 3/31-4/1 night and there was no way to leave campus and get back to our apartments. The roads were filled with stranded cars, the plows couldn't get through, the elevated train wasn't running and we were stranded. The drift on one side of the building became too high to open the door and we had to keep scooping newly fallen snow away from the front steps with cardboard boxes, until the snow ended, in order to remain able to open those doors from inside the building. IIT had married couple apartments and Richard and Lenora, a chemistry grad student and his also-a-chemist chemistry-department employee wife, both from Hawaii, let us crash on their apartment furniture and floor and eat their food for a few days. Lenora told us about her grandmother who believed in Pele, the goddess of Kilauea. Once, the Hawaiian government decided to build a road the ran along a lower part of Kilauea. Grandma complained, "Pele won't tolerate that!" Sure enough, Kilauea became active, lava flowed down the side and then stopped - right after it covered the road. Another time, an experimental electricity generation station was built that pumped water down a hole drilled down into Kilauea and used the steam that came back up to turned generator turbines. Again, Grandma screamed about how Pele would be upset! Sure enough, Kilauea became active and the lava stopped after it covered the station. Lenora didn't believe in Pele but said there was too much in what Grandma predicted that came through to simply dismiss the idea. After grad school, Richard and Lenora did not move back to Hawaii: they found a more beautiful place to live: Maryland! They still live in the D.C. suburbs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted December 22, 2020 Share #17 Posted December 22, 2020 5 hours ago, MickinMD said: After grad school, Richard and Lenora did not move back to Hawaii: they found a more beautiful place to live: Maryland! They still live in the D.C. suburbs. I'm surprised you have never been to Hawaii, Mick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zealot Posted December 22, 2020 Share #18 Posted December 22, 2020 Watched several vids of the eruption. Pretty amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted December 22, 2020 Author Share #19 Posted December 22, 2020 7 hours ago, MickinMD said: a more beautiful place to live: Maryland! It’s really not debatable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted December 22, 2020 Share #20 Posted December 22, 2020 Just now, Prophet Zacharia said: It’s really not debatable. Invite him next time you go. Just have to see it to believe it, and then he'll be making retirement plans for Maui or Kauai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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