Hi All,
Lots of attention to our state as this volcano situation has occurred. Nothing here on Maui but a slight case of VOG once in a while. No ash as of yet. The eruption is about 150 miles SE of my location and we are kinda protected by a 10,000 foot mountain on which I am on the West side of this mountain at about 1,500 feet ASL.
See my page at http://www.dwayneyamato.com/wx/wxvolcano-hi.php and also the VOG Prediction Model on the same pull out menu.
Regards,
–Stan Y.
Maui, Hawaii
Latest concern is ‘laze’, a product of lava combined with haze (started when it hit the ocean). It has been deadly in the past - http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/38231824/with-lava-inching-toward-the-ocean-the-newest-concern-laze
It’s a sad situation for sure. I just added the Hawaii News Now slide show widget to my web page which is pretty cool but, it’s sad to see someone’s house being devoured by the lava and exploding in flames.
Please see this new section of the HVO web site for information on the ongoing activity at Kilauea Volcano:
Resources for 2018 Kilauea Lower East Rift Zone and Summit Activity
https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/activity_2018.html
[size=83]Kilauea destroys 600 homes, marking its most destructive eruption in modern timesThe number of homes destroyed by lava has reached 600 since Kilauea started erupting on May 3, 2018, marking its most destructive eruption in modern times and the most destructive in the United States since the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
The number surpasses by far the 215 structures destroyed during Kilauea’s earlier eruption cycle that began in 1983 and continued nearly nonstop over the next three decades. Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim, whose house was also recently destroyed, said Kilauea has never destroyed so many homes before in such a short period of time.
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woa 8O
Another amazing video, this one of high speed lava flow from fissure 8 yesterday
Update: Probably a fake 
8O Wow!
That’s incredible! My guess on the speed would be 40-50 mph.
I agree! It’s like watching a speeding train at a railroad crossing.
As amazing as this seems and with pieces of lava flying up and seeming to obey gravity, I still am skeptical.
Have any geological services validated this? Or helicopter views?
You could well be right Dale. I got the link from the twitter of someone who should know but that’s no guarantee :dontknow: Fast lava" is generally just a few feet/second. The bird sounds worry me, I would have thought the noise from the lava flow would have been deafening.
Niko, believe me, I’m in awe of nature as much as the next guy but way before the internet and editing tools, I’ve seen many a fake which seems to, due to the spectacular nature, is quickly passed on for others to be in awe and enjoy.
The flow of lava down a very steep cone is not nearly that fast. Pyrotechnic blasts driven by explosive gas and water being depressurized and blowing is darned fast.
But look at the videos of the Colorado river with no more slope than the place shown, and water isn’t flowing that fast.
The puzzling thing is those darned pieces of lava being thrown up and then coming down, about as my intuition would expect them to.
Either this is real or someone is very very clever at faking it.
I checked the Park site and the NGS sites with news from there today, and neither had anything like this at all.
I’m impressed with the mass of lava that has moved outward earlier but this volume would be enormous and one would think the NGS would be all over documenting and studying it.
Stay tuned, I’m sure we’ll hear verification or debunking eventually. In the mean time, I’m going to watch it again, for about the 30th time!
By no means scientific, but here are a couple things I found
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFgTOrf0gIA
At about 8:20 there are some military escorted press phtographers, and the frogs chirping are similar, but in footage at 2:00 or so there are flows at expected speed, and with more ‘lava noise’ as one might expect.
Also, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWiohI78arM
with more footage of lava rivers and apparently the correct ambient noise. Part way throgh there is not a river but near a rift with very loud and impressive noise.
I realize not the same situation, but still with the lava being thrown up in the air, might be somewhat similar.
Some impressive, believable video from the volcano,
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kilauea-volcano-eruption-lava-river-195223684.html
At 1:20, 2:58 and again at 3:08 there is impressive flow. Not as fast as shown in the subject video, but still a wee bit faster than I would have guessed.
the noise, however is very scary.
This last video makes some of the motion seem faster by panned upstream, and without any landmarks for size one has no idea what the added visual effect is.
Current Kilauea lava flows are hottest, fastest of latest eruption, the video is geoblocked but the text has this quote “Overnight, the lava was moving fast enough to cover about six football fields an hour, according to U.S. Geological Survey scientist Wendy Stovall.”. 600 yards/hour is only 0.35 miles an hour.
the original video is with a big zoom
i.e take from a long way a way
which makes it look faster
the video above does show very fast moving lava, especially in the center of the flow
Here’s a little more: I did find in that great scientific journal USAToday, this piece. No videos, but this discussion:
"Lava from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii has been spewing for over a month, but the thick, slow-moving lava has taken a new shape, transforming into a wide, hot, flowing river of lava traveling long distances.
The 2100-degree lava is flowing together into a molten red river running 9 miles from the fissure into the ocean at Kapoho. The transition into fast-paced lava moving about 200 yards per hour seen Monday is due the location of the fissure.
The fissure, the 8th of 24 fissures, is located in the lower east rift zone near Leilani Estates. The magma under the surface in this area is hotter, more fluid and less crystallized.
“The whole lower east rift zone has a plumbing system two miles below surface and it is delivering hotter magma at fissure 8, which is giving runnier lava that’s flowing to the ocean,” said Charles Mandeville, program coordinator for volcano hazards program at United States Geological Survey. "
I also saw on another maybe British Newspaper something about the temperature of the lava now erupting was 50 degrees Celsius hotter than previous lava and that relatively minor temperature increase made the stuff much more liquid. The expert said it was about as hot as the lava can get, now being at the same temperature as the mantel and hotter isn’t possible. Can’t verify it but sounds reasonable.
I guess we got a direct route to the earth’s innards now and its pouring out. Pretty impressive.
200 yards/hour is a far cry from the 45-50 mph that the other thing implied and certainly makes me think that this was mostly an optical illusion. And the shimmering of that kind of temperature looks like what you’d see in a blast furnace movie.
Like those 