Kilauea has Hit the Pause Button....
Aug 15th, 2018, 03:50 PM
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Kilauea has Hit the Pause Button....
So, fellow travelers, is it too soon for you to decide to come back to the Big Island this fall and winter? Just curious!
We follow the eruption news very closely and subscribe to Hawaii Island Civil Defense updates and messages. Although it's far too early to know what will ultimately happen, it's encouraging that at least there is a "pause" happening in the current Lower East Rift Zone (Puna) eruption. And Hawaii County has requested over $600 million to go into what appears, to be a fast response to the eruption.
No matter what, for the victims and displaced people of Puna - as well as Civil Defense and other First Responders - the pause and time to re-group has to be a welcome and overdue event!
Here's a message I received from them tonight:
Kīlauea Volcano has remained quiet for well over a week now, with no further collapse events at the summit, and, with the exception of a small, crusted-over pond of lava deep inside the fissure 8 cone and a few scattered ocean entries, no lava flowing in the lower East Rift Zone (LERZ).
Earthquake and deformation data show no net accumulation, withdrawal, or significant movement of subsurface magma or pressurization as would be expected if the system was building toward a resumption of activity.
It is too soon to tell if this change represents a temporary lull or the end of the LERZ eruption and/or summit collapse activity. In 1955, similar pauses of 5 and 16 days occurred during an 88-day-long LERZ eruption. During the Mauna Ulu eruption (1969-1974), a 3.5 month pause occurred in late 1971.
We follow the eruption news very closely and subscribe to Hawaii Island Civil Defense updates and messages. Although it's far too early to know what will ultimately happen, it's encouraging that at least there is a "pause" happening in the current Lower East Rift Zone (Puna) eruption. And Hawaii County has requested over $600 million to go into what appears, to be a fast response to the eruption.
No matter what, for the victims and displaced people of Puna - as well as Civil Defense and other First Responders - the pause and time to re-group has to be a welcome and overdue event!
Here's a message I received from them tonight:
Kīlauea Volcano has remained quiet for well over a week now, with no further collapse events at the summit, and, with the exception of a small, crusted-over pond of lava deep inside the fissure 8 cone and a few scattered ocean entries, no lava flowing in the lower East Rift Zone (LERZ).
Earthquake and deformation data show no net accumulation, withdrawal, or significant movement of subsurface magma or pressurization as would be expected if the system was building toward a resumption of activity.
It is too soon to tell if this change represents a temporary lull or the end of the LERZ eruption and/or summit collapse activity. In 1955, similar pauses of 5 and 16 days occurred during an 88-day-long LERZ eruption. During the Mauna Ulu eruption (1969-1974), a 3.5 month pause occurred in late 1971.
