Could come home to this some day, down yor street.
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.
The drone footage showed a property with what looked like a Yurt occupying it.
Smart way to live if you reside on the side of a volcano. (Not that living on the side of volcano is smart)
“In the case of Leilani Estates, they built right on top of the eastern rift zone, and even inside a crater that could have reactivated (and did).”
Watched a documentary about that earlier this morning.
165 houses and 100 miles of paved road destroyed. 30,000 acres covered in lava and one billion cubic feet of lave ejected.
George Carlin was right about lave in people’s living rooms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rk3oW4aahQ
Could come home to this some day, down yor street.
This thread seems like a weird place to post that link.
But, since you brought it up: If the athlete’s foot fungus could do that the world would be a much happier place.
Never mind. Now I see the connection. Duh...
Nope, the data is contaminated and the results have to be “adjusted out” with a computer model “filter.” The global warming hoax correlates precisely to when the Big Island eruptions began. The Big Island CO2 data became exhibit A to the global warming theory. All the other NOAA readings from other sites are also adjusted to fit the Big Island data.
It’s Hawaii. Island Time.
They won’t report on the End of the World until the weekend after it happens.
It’s a good time to unload that lot due to circumstances beyond your control and probably would please Pele also. I can wire the $795 to you this afternoon.
Yes, the drone footage is what got my attention. Holy cow!
I haven’t seen any new footage today but imagine the ground has been ripped open in other spots by now.
A woman goes to her doctor and tells him,
“Doctor, every time I sneeze, I have an orgasm.”
“My goodness!”, he replies. “What are you taking for it?”
“Just pepper.”, she answers.
Lava itself releases toxic gases, including carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide and hydrofluoric acid. When lava interacts with seawater a variety of other toxic gases are produced, including hydrochloric acid, which is highly corrosive. The lava haze, or laze, as it is called, can be deceptively deadly.
https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/danger-paradise-hidden-hazards-volcano-geotourism
Vog does not bother me other than the crappy visibility. Some complain of all sorts of ailments from it.
I was being a smart ass.
The island, Pele be shakin' her booty.
I had a dry cough when I was there for two weeks.
I stayed with my friend in Kona, and we went all over hiking and swimming.
Met BJ Penn in Costco...
5.6 quake, only 0.6 miles down. That is a shallow sucker.
Cool. I joked around with Terry Bradshaw at Safeway a while back.
On the upside it could result in more oceanfront property to sell
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More on the morning’s 5.3 and a new fissure...
http://m.hawaiinewsnow.com/hawaiinewsnow/db/330510/content/kt5hgCu8
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