IASA #86

Naughty Mo'o chewed through the heavy duty cable tie out!

 

IASA #85

Kyle stopped at Lapakahi on a bike camping tour around Hawai'i Island; turns out we met in 2018 on O'ahu.

Kīlauea Eruption Pau

At around 9 this morning the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory officially declared the Kīlauea eruption over. This is the eruption that began last Sunday at around 3:15 pm HST. So the eruption lasted just 6 days. The Kīlauea Recent Eruptions page has more information about the eruption, including a chronology, photos, videos, & maps. 

When Kīlauea 1st erupted about a week ago, I got a notice from the USGS Volcano Notification Service (VNS) about an hour after the eruption started. You can subscribe by clicking on the link above & following directions. Notifications are available for these U.S. Volcano Observatories: Alaska (AVO), California (CalVO), Cascades (CVO), Hawaiian (HVO), Northern Marianas Islands (NMI) and Yellowstone (YVO). I subscribe to the HVO & AVO notifications. (Tsunami affecting Hawaiʻi can be caused by earthquakes associated with volcanoes in Alaska.) 

Big Island Now has a great article on living on Kīlauea, which is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. Since the 2018 eruption that destroyed more than 700 structures, there have been 5 more eruptions. The article examines methods to mitigate the damage from lava flows.

Tropical Depression Twelve-E dissipated overnight. There is another system closer to Mexico that has an 80% chance of becoming an organized system in the next 7 days.

IASA #84

NKCDP-AG Culture & History subcommittee visited pōhaku at Hawai'i Island Retreat.

 

Kīlauea Still Erupting

Kīlauea is still erupting! This is a great USGS video that provides a lot of information about this eruption. It also has great maps! And notes the closed viewing area & the open areas.

 

These are photos from the USGS Kilauea summit webcams from various points around the Halemaʻumaʻu caldera. These are screenshots of photos from around 6 pm; views after sunset show the glow of the molten magma in cracks between the cooler surface layers of lava.

This is the thermal image taken from the same viewpoint as the previous photo.

View is from the north rim of the downdropped block and looking west.

Here is another video that explains more about the eruption & its potential effects on the community. They provided information about the sulfur dioxide levels as well as potential vog problems for adjacent communities. The video also shows scientists sampling the lava.

The weather this morning looked promising; there were a few light clouds in the sky. As I left for Lapakahi State Historical Park the clouds looked even thinner than earlier in the morning.

1 hour 17 minutes after sunrise.

While at Lapakahi this morning I let tourists know that Kīlauea had started erupting again & found only about half of them had heard the news. Dane had bought Chocolate Banana Cream Pie for dessert with lunch; but since he did not have his cooler today we ate dessert 1st! Jaime came by after lunch. We talked about new interpretive projects that she is hoping to work on this year. I stayed about an hour longer than I usually do so I went up to close of the entry gate at 3:15; Dane & Jaime closed the main park gate later.

This half of the gate has a sign saying entry is closed at 3:15 pm.

There is a disturbance in the Eastern Pacific basin near longitude 125W, about 2100 miles east-southeast of Hilo. This morning it was forecast to have a 60% chance of becoming a tropical depression within the next 7 days; by the evening that went up to 70% chance in 7 days. It is moving northwesterly. 

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Kathleen!

Kilauea Erupting Again!

At around 3:15 this afternoon, Kilauea began erupting again. Here is a USGS live cam of the eruption.

 

 

IASA #83

Had dinner with WA friends Carmel, Eva, Heidi, & Nawo at King's View Cafe.