Map is unreal. Activity everywhere:

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/hvo_earthquakes.html

USGS Volcano twatter feed:

https://mobile.twitter.com/USGSVolcanoes

County of Hawaii Emergency notifications: sign up!

https://countyofhawaii.bbcportal.com/?

Public info from earlier today

HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY DAILY UPDATE

U.S. Geological Survey

Friday, May 4, 2018, 7:45 AM HST (Friday, May 4, 2018, 17:45 UTC)

KILAUEA VOLCANO (VNUM #332010)

19°25'16" N 155°17'13" W, Summit Elevation 4091 ft (1247 m)

Current Volcano Alert Level: WARNING

Current Aviation Color Code: ORANGE

Summary: An eruption is in progress along Kīlauea Volcano's lower East Rift Zone. Since late afternoon May 3, at least three small fissure vents have opened in Leilani Estates subdivision in the lower Puna district. At this time, activity consists mostly of vigorous lava spattering. Additional outbreaks in the area are likely. Deflationary tilt at the summit of the volcano continues and the lava lake level continues to drop.

Photos and maps of activity will be posted to the HVO web site as they become available. https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/multimedia_chronology.html

Lower East Rift Zone:

The first outbreak of lava occurred late in the afternoon of May 3 following days of increased earthquake activity and ground deformation. As of this morning, three separate fissures have opened in the eastern portion of Leilani Estates. Each outbreak has been preceded by ground cracking and strong gas emission. Activity consists primarily of vigorous spattering of lava and development of very short lava flows that have yet to travel more than a few tens of yards from the vent. Earthquake activity in the area remains elevated and ground deformation is continuing. High levels of volcanic gas are reported around the fissure vents.

Residents of the Puna District to remain alert, review individual, family, and business emergency plans, and watch for further information about the status of the volcano. Hawaii County Civil Defense messages regarding conditions, warning, and evacuations may be found at http://www.hawaiicounty.gov/active-alerts/.

Summit Observations: Deflationary tilt at the summit continues. In concert, the summit lava lake is dropping. Tremor amplitude is fluctuating with lava lake spattering. Elevated summit sulfur dioxide emission rates persist. Gas emissions remain elevated. Current webcam views are here: https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/multimedia_webcams.html

Puʻu ʻŌʻō Observations: Seismicity remains elevated at Puʻu ʻŌʻō but tiltmeters near the cone show no significant deformation overnight. During fieldwork at Puʻu ʻŌʻō yesterday, no lava activity was observed in the area. The 61g lava flow is no longer being fed. The summit crater of the cone continues to collapse intermittently producing small plumes of ash; yesterday there were several episodes of ash emission in response to collapse, including immediately after the nearby M5.0 earthquake.

MORE INFORMATION

Activity Summary also available by phone: (808) 967-8862

Lava viewing information:

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park: https://www.nps.gov/havo/planyourvisit/lava2.htm

County of Hawaii: http://www.hawaiicounty.gov/lava-viewing/

Kalapana lava-viewing area: 808-430-1966

Subscribe to these messages: https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/vns2/

Webcam images: https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/multimedia_webcams.html

Photos/Video: https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/multimedia_chronology.html

Lava Flow Maps: https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/multimedia_maps.html

Definitions of terms used in update: https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/extra/definitions.pdf

Overview of Kīlauea summit (Halemaʻumaʻu) and East Rift Zone (Puʻu ʻŌʻō ) eruptions:

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/extra/background.pdf

Summary of volcanic hazards from Kīlauea eruptions:

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/extra/hazards.pdf

Recent Earthquakes in Hawai'i (map and list):

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/hvo/earthquakes/

Explanation of Volcano Alert Levels and Aviation Color Codes:

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/activity/alertsystem/index.php

https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2006/3139

Simulation videos of this area sliding into the ocean and resultant MegaTsunamis.

If this goes, the coast could be toast.

Old one showing Kilauea is next:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPIx0B9O8Us

If this goes:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VvMUJKFjAiA

Another (NatGeo with better music)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=5s&v=Y0IgwVElUwE

Unstable Flanks and Eruptive Mechanics

Hawaii Lecture Notes specific to this area

https://hilo.hawaii.edu/~kenhon/GEOL205/Flank/default.htm

Paleoseismic Analysis of the South Flank of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii

http://seismo.berkeley.edu/~burgmann/RESEARCH/HILINA/THESIS/PROSPECT/PROSPECT.html

What does this have to do with Q?

Well should things go awry in Kilauea, GEOTUS will be the focal point. You know the left will blame him (why didn't you do something, etc etc)

So let's sort out what's going on ahead of time.

Now getting M6+ EQ's

Latest M6.9!

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000dyad#executive

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000dyad#shakemap

Not good.

Higher res chart showing peior slumps qnd depths around Hawaii

https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/cred/himap/plots/pdfs/MainHI_SHOALS.jpg

Data from a slide long ago in the sqme area:

Perspective view of the Big Island of Hawaii, looking northeast. The giant Alika landslide descended the western slope of the volcano Mauna Loa (ML). The northern lobe of the landslide, Alika 2, was about 120 cubic miles in volume (the 1980 Mt. St. Helens landslide was less than one cubic mile). Sediments lying on top of the Alika 2 debris are 120,000 years old.

credit: Gerard Fryer, SOEST/University of Hawaii

http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/SOEST_News/PressReleases/Megatsunami/

Coincidentally, the volume commonly used for the LaPalma / Cumbre Vieja model Atlantic megatsunami is also 120 cu. Mi. (500 km3)

https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog/2017/07/14/la-palma-part-2/

To get an idea of times of arrival and magnitude of a similar tsunami hitting the left coast, see attached pic

I don't.

Underwater observatory data from a station NW of Oahu @ 5000m depth

http://aco-ssds.soest.hawaii.edu/dataDisplay.php

Lots of stuff, seismograms, salinity, temperature, pressure etc. You can listen to their hydrophones real-time. They have some libraries of earthquakes you can listen to also. Sped up because seismic is subsonic

http://aco-ssds.soest.hawaii.edu/dataDisplay.php

Drudge now leading with Hawaii story

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/38087728/puna-warned-series-of-quakes-could-indicate-eruption-is-possible

Seems like a kinda pointless thread… Kilauea has been active and erupting on and off for centuries. It's the type of volcano that spews lava rather than go kablooy (like Mt. St. Helens or Yellowstone)–pretty low chance of inflicting any casualties… Pretty low and the Happening scale.

>>1311654

Latest from USGS

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New map of 8 eruptive fissures in #LeilaniEstates subdivision in order of formation. More fissure vents with spatter & small lava flows formed early this morning (May 5) & new outbreaks likely.

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/status.html … #KilaueaErupts #kilauea #usgs #hvo #hawaiianvolcanoobservatory

If you look at the current map of Hawaii and the number & location of earthquakes (currently 217 Mw.5 or greater over the past 24 hours) it overlaps the region likely to slide almost perfectly.

Tinyurl com/ydez3676

Will it go? Nobody knows. But 200+ earthquakes from 2.5 to 6.9 in one day on a ledge of a mountain is not reassuring.

"Experts" are claiming the remnants of the Hillna sluml (itself unstable" are propping everything up.

image from NASA's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft show recent eruptions of Kilauea volcano on the island of Hawaii (the Big Island). Following days of increased seismic activity, Kilauea erupted May 3, 2008, and triggered a number of additional fissure eruptions along the East Rift Zone. The eruptions and high level of sulfur dioxide gas (SO2) prompted evacuations in the area, including the Leilani Estates subdivision near the town of Pahoa.

The ASTER images, acquired on May 6, 2008, show different aspects of the eruption. A color composite depicts vegetation in red, and old lava flows in black and gray. Superimposed on the image in yellow are hotspots detected on the thermal infrared bands. The easternmost hot spots show the newly formed fissures and the lava flow spilling to the northwest.

The middle spots are Pu'u O'o crater, and lava flows descending the slopes to the southeast. The westernmost area is the crater and lava lake on Kilauea's summit. The greenish area southwest of Pu'u O'o is ash deposits from its short eruption on Friday.

The inset shows the massive sulfur dioxide plume is shown in yellow and yellow-green, extracted from ASTER's multiple thermal bands. A smaller, but thicker, sulfur dioxide gas plume can be seen coming from Kilauea. The prevailing trade winds blow the plumes to the southwest, out over the ocean. The images cover an area of 57.8 by 63 kilometers, and are located at 19.3 degrees North, 155.1 degrees West.

With its 14 spectral bands from the visible to the thermal infrared wavelength region and its high spatial resolution of 15 to 90 meters (about 50 to 300 feet), ASTER images Earth to map and monitor the changing surface of our planet. ASTER is one of five Earth-observing instruments launched Dec. 18, 1999, on Terra. The instrument was built by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. A joint U.S./Japan science team is responsible for validation and calibration of the instrument and data products.

The broad spectral coverage and high spectral resolution of ASTER provides scientists in numerous disciplines with critical information for surface mapping and monitoring of dynamic conditions and temporal change. Example applications are: monitoring glacial advances and retreats; monitoring potentially active volcanoes; identifying crop stress; determining cloud morphology and physical properties; wetlands evaluation; thermal pollution monitoring; coral reef degradation; surface temperature mapping of soils and geology; and measuring surface heat balance.

The U.S. science team is located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The Terra mission is part of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C.NASA images as new fissures open up

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https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA22450

The NASA Rocket Surgeons apparently don't differentiate 2018 from 2008.

Neat pix tho

Kilauea eruption has upgraded aircraft warning status to code Red.

https://twitter.com/USGSVolcanoes/status/996778283290128384

https://www.usgs.gov/news/k-lauea-volcano-erupts

Video of fissures at link:

http://m.hawaiinewsnow.com/hawaiinewsnow/db/330510/content/SscMN4tK

Bunches of pics to follow

More pics

More

thought the traffic barriers were a nice touch.

>>1300343

>This mountain would be higher than Everest if Everest were lower

Why do people think that makes them sound smart?

Kilauea from space

https://twitter.com/ESA_EO/status/1000014130257055747

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=92194&src=eorss-nh

Timelapse from nearby observatory showing glow from Kilauea

https://www.gemini.edu/node/21057

"Star trail image showing glow from volcanic eruptions in Hawaii (bright glow right of center). A bright meteor and the greenish glow of the town of Hilo can be seen left of center. Image produced by stacking about 100 images (about one hour) from a time lapse sequence obtained from the Gemini North telescope's cloud camera on the night of May 21-22. Credit: Gemini Observatory/AURA/NSF star trail image compiled by Joy Pollard."

Here's where thinhs take an unexpected turn:

There is a geothermal plant which has been injecting water into the volcano to produce steam and thus produce power.

"However, more worrying for now is that fact that the lava crossed onto the Puna Geothermal Venture (PGV) Saturday evening local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, having destroyed dozens of nearby houses in the past few days.

Since Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano began a once-in-a-century-scale eruption May 3, authorities have shutdown the plant, removed 60,000 gallons of flammable liquid and deactivated wells that tap into steam and gas deep in the Earth’s core.

But, as Reuters reports, lava has never engulfed a geothermal plant anywhere in the world and the potential threat is untested, according to the head of the state’s emergency management agency.

Residents have complained of health hazards from emissions from the plant since it went online in 1989 and PGV has been the target of lawsuits challenging its location on the flank of one of the world’s most active volcanoes.

The Israeli-owned 38 megawatt plant typically provides around 25 percent of electricity on the Big Island, according to local power utility Hawaii Electric Light.

Operator Ormat Technologies last week said there was no above-ground damage to the plant but it would have to wait until the situation stabilized to assess the impact of earthquakes and subterranean lava flows on the wells.

However, as we detailed previously, there is a long-running debate about whether PGV is fracking. The debate may be a matter of terminology, because in the geothermal process, as hawaiifracking.com reports, “…the drilling and the injection of cold water into hot rocks used in geothermal energy plants does fracture the rocks, which can induce earthquakes and through contamination of the atmosphere and water tables can affect our health and safety.”

Whether deep injection of fluid aims to capture oil, gas, or heat (geothermal), the beginning stage of the process is the same.

Earthquakes induced by this water-injection could obviously trigger a volcano."

More to follow…

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-27/stunning-images-space-widening-advancing-lava-flow-reaches-hawaii-power-plant

"For example, here is an alarming article about a geothermal project in Switzerland. Swissinfo.ch, December 10, 2009:

“The authorities in canton Basel City say they will cancel a geothermal energy project, which three years ago caused minor tremors that damaged many buildings.”

“A risk analysis study published on Thursday found that the danger of setting off more earthquakes was too great if drilling at the site resumed.”

“The project was put on hold three years ago after thousands of claims for damage were filed with insurers. Total costs for the damage were around SFr9 million ($8.78 million).”

“The study, commissioned by the canton, concluded that Basel was ‘unfavourable’ for geothermal power generation.”

“It said the resumption of Deep Heat Mining project and its operation over a 30-year period could set off around 200 tremors with a strength of up to 4.5 on the Richter Scale – in 2006, the quakes were about 3.4.”

“This would result in damages up to SFr40 million.”

“The Basel facility drilled five kilometres into the earth. The borehole was designed to be injected with water to capture the extreme heat. Back at the surface, the hot water – at a temperature of around 160° Celsius – would run a steam turbine coupled with a generator.”

"This Swiss article outlines the risks, and also confirms that deep water-injection is used in the geothermal process—which can and does trigger earthquakes."

Wall of text, I know. The next post is gonna make your jaw drop…

Ormat is no stranger to scandals. At blog.heartland.org, H Sterling Burnett writes (4/1/15):

"One scandal that could haunt [Harry] Reid for his remaining time in the Senate (and possibly beyond) was reported on recently in the Washington Free Beacon and Courthouse News. It seems the Reid helped the green energy company, Ormat Technologies, a firm that owns and manages geothermal plants in California and Hawaii, secure nearly $136 million in economic stimulus funding from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.”

“Two former employees are suing the firm, claiming Ormat executives defrauded the United States of more than $130 million by reporting false information about two projects to get government grants, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.”

“Reid’s ties to Ormat are deep. The company runs geothermal plants in Nevada and Reid has been a big booster of the company in D.C. As reported in the Free Beacon, ‘Reid bragged about securing Ormat a $350 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy (DOE) and took credit for expanding the Treasury program that the former employees say illicitly provided Ormat with millions more in taxpayer funds’.”

“It is also worth noting that Ormat’s DOE award came a year after investors sued the company for allegedly inflating its stock price through ‘fraudulent accounting and overstated financial results.’ Ormat settled the allegations in 2012 for $3.1 million.”

Harry fvckin Reid got bribed to let these IDIOTS drill a volcano and inject cold Pacific water into it and do it with our money.

Ormat is based out of Nevada.

https://www.haaretz.com/1.5077462

Worth a dig or two…

Remarkable pics coming out.

Would be neat to visit, but what a powderkeg.

M5.3 Volcanic Eruption

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/hv70210622#executive

Earthquakes reach fever pitch.

>500 in 24 hours.

"Crack in the World" scenario.

Scientists mull nuclear option

https://io9.gizmodo.com/5844668/what-would-really-happen-if-you-nuked-a-volcano

Could anti-matter bomb hold the key?

Canadian physicist weighs in

Nuke Kilauea motion passes UN vote

"What could go wrong?"