Swarms of Quakes Rattle Hawaii’s Big Island as Possible Eruption Looms

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Helicopter airlifts trapped residents as lava from Hawaii volcano speeds up, air quality diminishes

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/05/19/hawaii-volcano-helicopter-rescues-trapped-residents-lava-speeds-up/625715002/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_ campaign=usatoday-newstopstories

[Swordsmyth]

A stream of lava threatened to block a key Hawaii highway on Saturday that serves as an escape route for coastal residents, while the first known serious injury was reported from fresh explosive eruptions from the Kilauea volcano."A homeowner on Noni Farms Road who was sitting on a third-floor balcony got hit with lava spatter," said Janet Snyder, a spokesperson for the Office of the Mayor, County of Hawaii.
"It hit him on the shin and shattered everything there down on his leg," she said, adding that lava spatters "can weigh as much as a refrigerator and even small pieces of spatter can kill." No other information was immediately available.
As magma destroyed four more homes, molten rock from two huge cracks merged into a single stream, threatening to block escape routes. It was expected to hit Highway 137 overnight if it kept up its rate and direction of flow, the County of Hawaii's Civil Defense Agency said.
Authorities are trying to open up a road that was blocked by lava in 2014 to serve as an alternative escape route should Highway 137 or another exit route, Highway 130, be blocked, Jessica Ferracane of the National Park Service told reporters.
The park service is working to bulldoze almost a mile of hardened lava out of the way on nearby Highway 11, which has been impassable, she added.
The Hawaii National Guard has warned of mandatory evacuations if more roads become blocked.
For weeks, geologists have warned that hotter, fresher magma from Kilauea's summit would run underground and emerge some 25 miles east in the lower Puna district, where older, cooler lava has already destroyed 44 homes and other structures.
"Summit magma has arrived," U.S. Geological Survey scientist Wendy Stovall said on a conference call with reporters.
"There is much more stuff coming out of the ground and its going to produce flows that will move much further away."
Fountains of bright orange lava were seen spouting at least 20-feet high, and spewing rivers of molten rock on Saturday.
Carolyn Pearcheta, operational geologist at the Hawaii Volcano Authority, told reporters that hotter and more viscous lava could be on the way, with fountains spurting as high as 600 feet, as seen in a 1955 eruption.
"We've seen the clearing out of the system," she said. "We call that the 'throat clearing' phase."
NEW EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION
At the volcano's summit, another large explosive eruption occurred around midnight, sending up a nearly two-mile-high ash plume (10,000 feet), according to the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. There was another explosion around 4 p.m. (10 p.m. ET), according to a Reuters reporter.
Scientists expect a series of eruptions from Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, that could spread ash and volcanic smog across the Big Island, the southernmost of the Hawaiian archipelago.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/fresh-lav...031122274.html

[Swordsmyth]

National Guard presence on the island is high as molten lava has made its way within a few hundred yards of Puna Geothermal Venture (PGV) power plant which government insiders have already warned may explode.

RT reports that the geothermal power plant has been forced to completely shut down after Hawaii's Kilauea volcano entered a more violent stage, shooting fountains of red into the vicinity and threatening the release of toxic gases from the site.

Crews at the Puna Geothermal Venture (PGV) plant worked overnight to cap the 11th and final well at the site, which provides 25 percent of the Big Island's power.

The wells run 6,000 to 8,000 feet (1,829-2,438 meters) underground to tap into extremely hot water and steam used to run turbines and produce electricity.
The capping is the latest measure to be taken at the plant, which has been closed since Kilauea first erupted on May 3. Authorities previously removed the highly flammable chemical pentane from the site.

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...al-power-plant

[shakey1]

National Guard presence on the island is high as molten lava has made its way within a few hundred yards of Puna Geothermal Venture (PGV) power plant which government insiders have already warned may explode.

RT reports that the geothermal power plant has been forced to completely shut down after Hawaii's Kilauea volcano entered a more violent stage, shooting fountains of red into the vicinity and threatening the release of toxic gases from the site.

Crews at the Puna Geothermal Venture (PGV) plant worked overnight to cap the 11th and final well at the site, which provides 25 percent of the Big Island's power.

The wells run 6,000 to 8,000 feet (1,829-2,438 meters) underground to tap into extremely hot water and steam used to run turbines and produce electricity.
The capping is the latest measure to be taken at the plant, which has been closed since Kilauea first erupted on May 3. Authorities previously removed the highly flammable chemical pentane from the site.

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...al-power-plant

that speaks volumes of gtfo

[Swordsmyth]

Firefighters went door-to-door urging some residents of Leilani Estates on Hawaii's Big Island to leave as lava from the Kilauea volcano continued to flow, threatening more homes. "Any residents remaining in the current affected areas should evacuate now," said an emergency message from the Hawaii County Civil Defense.


Thick waves of fresh lava from fissure 22 and 7 -- which officials say are producing the largest amount of lava -- are blazing down a mound of volcanic rock.
"It's just a matter of time," resident Steve Gebbie says. "I don't know what's going to be left of Leilani, I really think it might be wiped out."
On Saturday, the Hawaii County Civil Defense said lava into the subdivision had slowed. Lava continued to enter the Pacific Ocean near MacKenzie State Park.
A series of volcanic explosions occurred Saturday morning, according to a tweet from USGS Volcanoes. The explosions produced an ash cloud that rose up to 11,000 feet above sea level, the National Weather Service said. Smaller explosions occurred overnight. Moderate winds were blowing to the southwest, and light ash was likely to fall downwind.

More at: https://www.local10.com/news/nationa...ty-intensifies

[Swordsmyth]

A broad lava flow crossed onto the property of a Hawaii geothermal power station on Saturday, posing a new hazard as molten rock from the erupting Kilauea volcano bulldozed relentlessly through homes and backyards.

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.

"The flow from fissures 21 and 7 was widening and advancing," Janet Snyder, a spokeswoman for the County of Hawaii, said in an email on the position of lava heading northeast toward PGV at 12:30 p.m. (6:00 p.m. ET)
Hawaii Governor David Ige has said the wells are stable.
But 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. Local residents fear an explosive emission of deadly hydrogen sulfide and other gases should wells be ruptured.
270 EARTHQUAKES IN ONE DAY
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 Inc 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.
In just the past 24 hours there were between 250 and 270 earthquakes at Kilauea's summit, with four explosions on Saturday sending ash to altitudes as high as 12,000-15,000 feet, said Stovall and National Weather Service meteorologist John Bravender.
Winds are set to shift on Monday and Tuesday, causing higher concentrations of ash and volcanic smog that will spread west and northwest to affect more populated areas, Bravender said.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/lava-flow...020610053.html

[angelatc]

that speaks volumes of gtfo

Honestly, this is the first time in my life I've ever wished I could vacation in Hawaii. I'd love to go see what it's like to be on the island when the volcano is erupting.

I read an article where an old guy was bemoaning the effect on tourism. He said in the old days, people would fly in just to see it. They'd buy postcards and burn the edges by dipping them in hot lava, then mail them off to friends. Now everybody is afraid.

[angelatc]

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.

I am not a socialist, but I'll be darned if I'd let anybody else tap into my natural resources and then charge my residents for supplying electricity.

[Swordsmyth]

A potentially explosive well at a geothermal power station on Hawaii has been covered by lava from the erupting Kilauea volcano after it flowed onto the site.
Locals fear an explosion of deadly hydrogen sulphide and other gasses should the well be ruptured.


Lava has never engulfed a geothermal power plant anywhere in the world and the potential threat is untested, according to the head of the state’s emergency management agency.
However, both the covered well and another which is threatened by flowing lava “are stable and secure,” Hawaii’s Civil Defence Agency said.
David Ige, the governor of Hawaii, said the geothermal plant was “sufficiently safe” from the lava, which has burned dozens of homes.
The molten rock was expected to continue to flow across the Puna Geothermal Venture (PGV) facility, according to the US Geological Survey.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hawaii-vo...143145382.html

[Swordsmyth]

Lava crossed a key highway in the mostly rural district of the Big Island where Kilauea volcano was erupting, local authorities in Hawaii said Tuesday.
Highway 132 connects the commercial center of Pahoa with smaller towns and farms in the area.
Hawaii County said lava destroyed the local electric utility's equipment on the highway, which knocked out power to Vacationland and Kapoho Beach Lots neighborhoods toward the coast.
Hawaii Electric Light Co. said it was evaluating how to provide power to these communities once the eruption is over but it won't be able to finalize a plan until the area is stable.


The eruption has so far destroyed more than 400 of its utility poles, the company said.
The destruction came after rivers of lava flowed toward the ocean over the weekend, forcing officials to knock on doors and urge residents holding out in two evacuated neighborhoods to flee right away.
Molten rock trapped at least one person who was rescued by authorities. The Kilauea volcano has been unleashing danger on the remote, rural southeastern side of the island for nearly a month, displacing thousands of residents, destroying 37 houses and forcing businesses to shut down.
Lava was shooting up from cracks in the ground and blowing strands of volcanic glass.
Explosions at the summit were sending small bursts of volcanic ash as high as 15,000 feet (4,570 meters).
Wind was carrying volcanic glass, gases, pollution and ash particles to other parts of the island. Authorities on Tuesday advised residents to minimize exposure to avoid irritation to skin and eyes and breathing problems.
A new fissure has opened, bringing the total number of cracks spouting lava to 24 since the volcano began erupting on May 3, Hawaii County Civil Defense said.
Lava also has covered two wells at a geothermal plant. County officials said the plugged wells were stable and being monitored, and no dangerous gases have been released, such as hydrogen sulfide — a colorless, flammable gas that can be emitted by volcanoes or when organic matter and waste break down.

More at: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/busi...212142829.html

[Swordsmyth]

Kilauea's volcano is now spewing the hottest and fastest-moving lava yet as Hawaii officials on the Big Island were forced to issue new evacuation orders in two coastal neighborhoods over fears that the rapidly advancing flows might trap residents.


The lava has been moving fast enough to cover approximately six football fields an hour, according to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientist Wendy Stovall.

WATCH: Video captures a stunning lava show in Puna, Hawaii

(Video by Chris Carroll) pic.twitter.com/aV9YjXkxBJ
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 31, 2018

"Hawaii County Civil Defense decided to evacuate all of lower Puna to ensure that people would be able to get out," Stovall said.
Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim said on late Tuesday that anyone who failed to evacuate would be on their own. As of Wednesday, 71 homes had been destroyed, a number officials expect to rise, along with 400 utility poles.


More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...ows-evacuation

[euphemia]

My relatives were evacuated early this morning.

[Swordsmyth]

My relatives were evacuated early this morning.

Glad to hear they are alright.

[euphemia]

Glad to hear they are alright.

Me, too. It seems like a real mess.

[Swordsmyth]

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[Swordsmyth]

In the four weeks since Hawaii's Kilauea volcano began erupting, over 80 homes and other structures have been destroyed, and it appears by warnings from local authorities, that the eruption is moving to a more dangerous phase.

Somewhat remarkably, only one person has been hurt by the lava since the eruptions began. Civil Defense Administrator Talmadge Magno told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser that a man sustained a "serious" injury on his leg two weeks ago when he was "lava-bombed" by splatter that hit him while he was sitting on the porch of a home near the Lanipuna Garden subdivision.
The incident reportedly shattered the victim's leg from his shin to his foot and he was taken to a hospital to be treated, ABC News reported.
The lava flow from fissure 8 is wide and feeding multiple flow lobes that are slowly moving downhill. The flow is advancing about 50 yards per hour...

This image shows the flow margin on Kahukai. The lava in this area is about 3 to 10 feet tall.

Fissure heights are continuing to reach 230 to 260 ft above ground level. The fountaining feeds a lava flow that is moving to the northeast.

And as Fox News reports, as that molten lava continued spewing, Hawaii County ordered all residents of a designated portion of the hard-hit Leilani Estates development to evacuate by Friday morning or face possible arrest.
Big Island Mayor Harry Kim declared a roughly 17-block swath of the estates “off limits indefinitely” and gave residents 24 hours to get out by 12:06 p.m. local time Friday, Reuters reported.

Those remaining in the mandatory evacuation area beyond the deadline “do so at their own risk, with the knowledge that emergency responders may not respond,” the Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency said in a statement.
The county agency also said anyone in violation of the order will be liable for any costs associated with rescue operations.

“There are no plans to go into the restricted area after 12:06 p.m. Friday and search for anyone who might still be there,” he said. “But anyone found in the area after that time could be subject to arrest.”
“Refusing to evacuate may put you, your family and first responders in danger,” the county agency added. “Heed warnings from Civil Defense officials and stay alert.”

Meanwhile, Leilani Estates residents west of the mandatory zone were “strongly encouraged to evacuate,” the county said.

“You are at risk of being isolated due to possible lava inundation,” the civil defense agency warned earlier this week.

Additionally, CNN reports that the Hawaii volcano, in addition to spewing ash, fountaining lava and bursting lava bombs from the Earth, is even creating its own weather.

The United States Geological Survey, or USGS, posted a photo to Facebook from earlier this week that shows building pyrocumulus clouds over fissure 8.

"Hawaii Volcano Observatory Scientists are beginning to observe these 'pyrocumulus' clouds forming over the Leilani Estates fissure system," stated the USGS.

Pyrocumulus clouds are rare mushroom-like cloud formations that can tower above lava and gases spattering from a volcano.
They are often also referred to as "flammagenitus" or "fire clouds," the USGS said in the post.

Meanwhile, it's not just the lava that is running hot, as CBS News reports, residents too are reaching their boiling point. A man was arrested after pulling a gun on a neighbor and shooting it during an argument.

Sixty-one-year-old John Hubbard is now under arrest, accused of opening fire and allegedly assaulting a neighbor who came to check on his property. The victim was injured, but was not shot.
Finally, Wendy Stovall, a volcanologist with the U.S. Geological Survey has some bad news...

“There’s no sign we’re getting that anything is going to slow down at the moment,” Stovall told reporters, according to Reuters.
“We don’t see any changes occurring.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...-violent-phase

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As Hawaii residents continue to flee the Kilauea eruption, Hawaii legislators are pondering a special session to address the damage. Ironically, their past actions are partially responsible for the scope of this disaster; after all, it was a state-created insurance group that incentivized living next to an active volcano.
The past few weeks have seen increased lava flow and volcanic fissures that have caused mass evacuations, with fast-moving lava flows now threatening small towns in Puna and Pahoa. But this volcanic activity isn’t as sudden as it seems. Geologically speaking, Kilauea has been continuously erupting since 1983.A particularly devastating eruption in 1990 cost millions for private insurers, who decided that enough was enough when it came to insuring homes near Kilauea against lava damage. Soon, most insurance companies stopped insuring property in Lava Zones 1 and 2. The market had spoken. It was simply too risky to live that close to Kilauea.

But that wasn’t acceptable to Hawaii policymakers, who decided that if local insurers wouldn’t willingly insure high-risk property, they could do so under compulsion.

In 1991, the Hawaii Legislature created the Hawaii Property Insurance Agency (HPIA). In theory it was intended to be a nonprofit insurance carrier of “last resort,” formed to provide property insurance to those who lived in Lava Zones 1 and 2 and couldn’t get insurance on the private market.
Private insurance companies must join HPIA if they want to do business in the state. As part of HPIA, they contribute to a pool that shares the expenses, losses, and profits of the association in proportion to their market share of casualty and property insurance written in the state.
Of course, insurers have a mechanism to help them cope with the expense of participating in HPIA — the age-old method of passing costs on to their customers. In essence, property owners across Hawaii end up subsidizing the cost of this high-risk insurance though their own high rates.
But HPIA did work — if you consider encouraging people to live beside an active volcano to be a success. By 2008, there were approximately 2,400 HPIA policies in the region, representing $700 million worth of insurance for an area that should have been uninsurable.

More at: http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/...disaster-worse

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As lava continued to pour vigorously from the ground through fissures at the foot of Kilauea Volcano, the month-old eruption on Hawaii’s Big Island has entered a new, seemingly calmer phase inside the summit crater, government scientists have said.
But vulcanologists monitoring and measuring Kilauea’s every move during the past four weeks hastened to add the latest change in the volcano’s behaviour, while undoubtedly significant, leaves them uncertain about what will follow.


The summit crater, which began ejecting ash and volcanic rock in periodic, daily eruptions in mid-May, has largely fallen quiet since Wednesday, Kyle Anderson, a US Geological Survey (USGS) geophysicist, told reporters in a conference call.
The apparent reason, newly revealed in footage recorded by drone aircraft flown over the summit, is that tons of rocky material shaken loose from the inside walls of the crater vent have plugged up the bottom of the void, Anderson said.
What happens next is unknown.
“It’s possible that new explosions will blast through the rubble at the bottom of the vent, and these may or may not be larger than previous explosions,” he said. “It’s also possible that the vent could become permanently blocked, ending the explosions entirely.”
In any case, the volcano’s behaviour ultimately hinges on the ebb and flow of huge rivers of molten rock called magma, the term for lava while it remains underground.
The steady collapse of the crater’s inner walls, caused by magma draining out of the summit and oozing downslope under the volcano’s surface, has also greatly enlarged the mouth of the vent, which has grown in size from about 12 acres (4.9 hectares) to 120 acres (48.5 hectares), Anderson said.


At the same time, the Kilauea summit itself has sunken, or subsided, by at least 5 feet (1.50 meters) in elevation as the magma level continues to drop, exerting tremendous pressure on seismic faults to create numerous earthquakes, mostly small tremors, in the immediate vicinity.
Although the summit crater of Kilauea has fallen silent for the moment, many of the two dozen volcanic fissures running through populated areas on its eastern flank continued to spout and ooze lava and toxic gases that prompted the evacuation of some 2,500 residents.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hawaii-ap...122141306.html

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Hawaii's Highway 137 has been blocked by lava, cutting off access to Kapoho, Vacationland, Hwy 132 and possibly the Puna Geothermal power plant.

#BREAKING #LeilaniEstatesEruption #KilaueaVolcano UPDATE: @CivilDefenseHI confirms flow crossed Hwy137, south of Four Corners after crossing Hwy132 north of intersection last night; NO ACCESS to Kapoho, Vacationland, Hwy132 & Hwy137 https://t.co/SKpW7U3GoL @HawaiiNewsNow #HINews pic.twitter.com/Q0PgTxa66E
— Mileka Lincoln (@MilekaLincoln) June 2, 2018

(via @MalikaDudley, HawaiiNewsNow)

#LeilaniEstatesEruption #KilaueaVolcano UPDATE: According to USGS, the large plume of white steam rising from Green Mountain is lake water boiling off from the heat of lava & could last hours given size of Green Lake https://t.co/dQBF4geJHH @HawaiiNewsNow #HINews (@ParadiseHeli) pic.twitter.com/ImhzkuP6MD
— Mileka Lincoln (@MilekaLincoln) June 3, 2018

Officials at the Puna Geothermal Ventrue (PVG) have confirmed that lava is covering the plant's monitoring station, however the Department of Health is monitoring for unsafe levels of hydrogen sulfide with none detected thus far.

#LeilaniEstatesEruption #KilaueaVolcano UPDATE: Puna Geothermal Venture officials confirm lava has covered the plant’s monitoring station but says Dept. of Health is maintaining hydrogen sulfide checks & none has been detected so far https://t.co/GnLHIBrBkf @HawaiiNewsNow #HINews pic.twitter.com/1gidYh6B5I
— Mileka Lincoln (@MilekaLincoln) June 2, 2018

That said, plant employees may have just lost their access in and out of the facility, as a Friday Instagram update from PVG reads "if lava crosses Highway 137 then they could lose their only way in and out of the plant."

Puna Geothermal Venture officials confirm lava from the fountaining fissure 8 in Leilani Estates continues to flow across the property — cutting across the main driveway to the plant facility. Mike Kaleikini, the company spokesperson, confirms a substation and a warehouse that stored a drilling rig have burned. He also says two wells have been covered on Well Pad E and a lava made contact with another, Well Pad A, but never passed across it. He says all 9 quenched wells and the two plugged wells are “holding up without any issues” — and confirms there has been no detected release of hydrogen sulfide.
According to Kaleikini, the monitoring station at PGV was covered by lava — so they are depending on the handheld machines their employees are using to check for hydrogen sulfide levels along with the monitors the Department of Health have installed around the area. Kaleikini says the plant is no longer being staffed 24/7, but personnel is on site every day. According to Kaleikini, even though the main driveway to the plant is blocked, there is still an alternate route available. However, if lava crosses Highway 137 (Government Beach Road) then they could lose their only way in and out of the plant. According to Ormat, which owns Puna Geothermal Venture, the company has insurance of up to $100 million in the case of eruptions and earthquakes — but it's not clear if that will cover everything. Ormat says significant damage or an extended shut-down could have an adverse impact on business. Last year, Puna Geothermal brought in about $11 million in net income. -Instagram

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...kilauea-crater

[Swordsmyth]

Fissures in the volcano’s east rift zone, which includes parts of the Puna district, continue to open up and disgorge lava, sometimes with no warning. Some cracks spew fountains of lava hundreds of feet into the air, while other flows have joined into one massive lava river.
Officials continue to call evacuations as needed, with the latest evacuations ordered suddenly last week in a neighborhood known as Kapoho. On Sunday, Hawaii Civil Defense said that a lava flow cut off a road, trapping at least 12 people there with no electricity or water.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hawaii-re...144938340.html

[Swordsmyth]

On Sunday, the Big Island was hit by a huge 5.5-magnitude earthquake…

A 5.5-magnitude quake rattled the Big Island Sunday afternoon, US Geological Survey officials said.
No tsunami is expected from the quake, which is among the strongest of recent quakes felt around the Big Island. The quake rumbled an area near Kilauea Volcano just before 4 p.m.

That was definitely a very large earthquake, but of much greater concern were all of the smaller earthquakes that happened on Sunday. At least 500 quakes struck the Island in a 24 hour period, and that was a new all-time record…

As of 11 a.m. Sunday, officials said 500 smaller earthquakes were recorded near the summit within the last day — it’s the most earthquakes recorded in a 24-hour period on Hawaii Island.

A lot of people that live in Hawaii did not believe that something like this would happen. Rivers of lava are reaching areas that were not supposed to be reached, and Kilauea just keeps pouring out more.


According to one report, one of the rivers of lava is “as wide as three football fields”…

National Guard troops, police and firefighters ushered the last group of evacuees from homes on the eastern tip of Hawaii’s Big Island early on Saturday, hours before lava from the Kilauea volcano cut off road access to the area, officials said.
A stream of lava as wide as three football fields flowed over a highway near a junction at Kapoho, a seaside community of rebuilt after a destructive eruption of Kilauea in 1960.

And when one of the rivers of lava reached a freshwater lake, it boiled away all of the water inside of it…

Also, lava destroyed a freshwater lake, boiling away all of the water in it, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported late Saturday, local time.
“Lava entered Green Lake within Kapoho Crater, producing a large steam plume … A Hawaiian County Fire Department overflight reported that the lava filled the lake and apparently evaporated all the water,” the report said.

It would be difficult to overstate the massive destructive power of Kilauea. Even with all of our advanced technology there is nothing that we can do to control the rivers of lava. The best that we can do is to try to evacuate everyone and then get out of the way.
Fortunately, most of the lava flows are moving slowly enough that people can make a decision to evacuate.

More at: https://www.infowars.com/earths-crus...and-guatemala/

[euphemia]

My relatives were evacuated late last week. The lava is very near their home but seems to flowing away from the house.

[Swordsmyth]

Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano continues to reshape the Big Island with an unceasing flow of lava in the Eastern Rift Zone that has destroyed hundreds of structures and recently erased the island's largest lake.
Flows of lava march all the way down to the Pacific Ocean where they are currently filling in Kapoho Bay and remaking the coastline.
Meanwhile, at the volcano's summit, located inland in the heart of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, earthquake activity has been intensifying in recent days, including a 5.5 magnitude temblor Monday and a 5.6 magnitude early Tuesday. The Hawaii County Civil Defense Authority reports there is no threat of a tsunami from the earthquakes as of Tuesday morning, however roads and buildings in the National Park have been damaged by the quakes.
The lava front that began flowing directly into the ocean at Kapoho Bay in recent days has been up to a half-mile wide, and the below video from the USGS shows the shallow bay being rapidly filled in with cooling lava. When lava contacts salt water it produces a toxic acid steam called "laze" that is laced with tiny particles of glass.

Video shows conditions at Kapoho Bay during a helicopter overflight on 6/4/18, around 6:15 AM and again around 1:38 PM; lava nearly fills the shallow bay.https://t.co/gkUkkYpYJi pic.twitter.com/K9bM0JVK6h
— USGS Volcanoes (@USGSVolcanoes) June 5, 2018

As the lava flowed downhill toward the bay over the weekend it contacted Green Lake, the largest body of water on the island, and quickly filled it in. Within five hours, local authorities reported that all the water in the lake had been evaporated by the relentless heat of the lava.

Kīlauea Message Sat, 02 Jun 2018 20:12:27 HST: F8 flow continues - advancing into Kapoho Crater and through Kapoho Beach Lots. At 10 AM, lava entered Green Lake. By 3PM, HCFD confirmed lake filled & water evaporated. Wide flow front is moving toward ocean.
— USGS Volcanoes (@USGSVolcanoes) June 3, 2018

It has now been over a month since magma began to burst forth from a series of fissures in the Eastern Rift Zone, centered on the Leilani Estates subdivision in Puna, which has now been partially destroyed. By some counts, the total number of structures destroyed by lava is quickly approaching 300. As of Monday, USGS reports that 7.7 square miles of the island have been covered with lava since the eruption began.
The most recent eruption in the same rift zone, in 1960, lasted 36 days. There's no telling, however, this eruption might go on for.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmac.../#68c17d4eb6db

[Swordsmyth]

Aerial and satellite photos taken over the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's big island reveal the extent of devastation caused by the massive eruption which began on May 3 - destroying 600 homes, roughly 500 of which occurred after the most recent eruption, which sent lava coursing through the communities of Kapoho beach and Vacationland. While thousands of people have been evacuated from the region, officials fear up to a dozen residents who refused to leave are dead.
The USGS notes that an estimated 4008.2 million cubic feet of lava has saturated the Eastern side of the Big Island - which would fill 45,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools, or 11 million dump trucks - enough to cover Manhattan Island up to a depth of six feet.


Aerial footage shows the flow front covering nearly a mile of coastline spewing toxic steam, also known as "vog," which will be blown inland until at least Sunday.

Helicopter overflight of the Kapoho Bay area on the morning of June 8, 2018, shows a flow front that is nearly a mile wide, extending south to Vacationland. #LERZ https://t.co/lRhaWdElzG pic.twitter.com/IxpU9undLT
— USGS Volcanoes�� (@USGSVolcanoes) June 8, 2018

Meanwhile, fissure #8 is belching a steady fountain of lava up to 230 feet in the air.

#LeilaniEstatesEruption #KilaueaVolcano LATEST: USGS says overnight lava fountaining from fissure 8 reached 130-180ft; A small explosion occurred at 4:48AM at the summit of Kīlauea, Kaʻu communities should be aware of ashfall https://t.co/CATbzbJQ6W @HawaiiNewsNow #HINews pic.twitter.com/uRTdFYi25P
— Mileka Lincoln (@MilekaLincoln) June 9, 2018

Flow map as of Friday:


More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...ft-lava-geyser

[euphemia]

My relative’s home was taken by the lava.

[Swordsmyth]

My relative’s home was taken by the lava.

I'm sorry to hear that.

[Swordsmyth]

Small explosions at the summit of an erupting Hawaii volcano could send ash into communities. Scientists say the blasts happened Monday, including one after a magnitude-5.4 earthquake. Ash expelled from the Kilauea volcano may cause poor visibility and slippery conditions for drivers.

More at: http://www.startribune.com/hawaii-vo...ava/485170001/

[Swordsmyth]

The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii is still sending lava flowing via channels that look like rivers on the island. The Hawaii Civil Defense Agency said there was a “large channelized flow” coming from the highly active Fissure 8 and making its way to Kapoho Bay, where the lava was entering the water.
Wednesday, in the early morning hours, there was a small explosion at the summit of the volcano. The explosion was expected to cause some ashfall downwind.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hawaii-ki...141559730.html

[Danke]

My relative’s home was taken by the lava.

My relative’s home was taken by termites.


Did they have lava insurance?

[Swordsmyth]

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday approved federal emergency housing aid and other relief for victims of the six-week-old Kilauea Volcano eruption on Hawaii's Big Island, where hundreds of homes have been destroyed, state officials said.The approval came a day after Governor David Ige formally requested assistance for an estimated 2,800 residents who have lost their homes to lava flows or were forced from their dwellings under evacuation orders since Kilauea rumbled back to life on May 3.
Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim has said that rivers of molten rock spewed from volcanic fissures at the foot of Kilauea have engulfed roughly 600 homes. The governor's office put the number of residences destroyed at 455.


No specific sum of money was sought by the governor for federal disaster aid, and no dollar figure was attached to the package Trump approved under the Individuals and Households Program, administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser newspaper reported this week that eligible homeowners and renters could get up to $34,000 each.
The program provides grants to displaced residents to secure temporary housing while their homes are repaired or rebuilt. Assistance can also be obtained for repair and replacement costs.
In addition to housing assistance, Trump approved relief from several other FEMA programs, including crisis counseling, unemployment benefits and legal aid.
Trump previously issued a major disaster declaration weeks ago authorizing money from FEMA public assistance grants for the county of Hawaii, the island's local governing authority.

More at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-app...033723173.html