Numerous Earthquakes and Kilauea Volcanic Eruption Rock Big Island of Hawaii

That incredible, C'est Moi.

The latest phenomena now are Blue flames shooting up out of fissures (in Leilani Estates), that are burning Methane Gas.

Lava is also messing with the Power Plant there. Kilauea is not fooling around.

 
We went to Hawaii in 2017. Just a little steam to look at then. Who knew what was coming?
It was inevitable but still very sad and scary.
 

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Eerie blue methane flames from the Hawaii volcano



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https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/24/us/hawaii-kilauea-volcano/index.html

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My son and his girlfriend finally had to give up and evacuate; the lava is now within a mile of their home near Pahoa. They flew to Portland Oregon on Saturday which is where they lived before they moved to Hawaii last year. I'm happy that I don't have to worry about them anymore, but I truly feel for the Big Islanders who have lost everything.
 
I just have to say it, it was ridiculous for there to have been approval for residential subdivisions to have been built near a known hazardous active volcano. Let's put it this way, Kilauea ain't Punchbowl Crater, and this is not the first time in the past years that homes have been threatened by it. It's like when people keep building back up after floods and hurricanes in vulnerable areas on the mainland. And the whole of the Big Island isn't threatened. It's just that part of the Island.

[FONT=&quot]The current ongoing eruption cycle began on Jan. 3, 1983, along the middle of the east rift zone. By April, the eruptions became localized at one vent. Lava fountains built a cinder and spatter cone 836 feet high (255 meters) that was named Pu`u `Ō`ō. The frequent short eruptions produced thick chunky lava flows that usually cooled and halted before reaching the coast. However, in July 1983, the lava made its inexorable advance into the nearby Royal Gardens subdivision and destroyed 16 homes. The expensive subdivision was largely abandoned.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In 1986, lava flows cut through the town of Kalapana as the lava made its way to the sea. As the lava field spread, cooled and spread again over the next three years it destroyed many homes and the Visitor Center in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park. In March 1990, Kilauea entered its most destructive eruption period in modern history. Over the summer more than 100 homes, a church and a store were buried beneath 50 to 80 feet (15 to 24 meters) of lava. [Explosive Images: Hawaii's Kilauea Erupts for 30 Years]

https://www.livescience.com/27622-kilauea.html[/FONT]
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The entire Hawaiian chain of islands were formed as the pacific tectonic plate slides over the "hot spot".

It has been an on-going event for 100's of millions of years.

If humans still inhabit this planet 100 million years from now, they will be seeing exactly what we are now seeing.

As volcano's go, Kilauea is a minor event. The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa, in the East Indies was huge. It spewed so much ash into the earth atmosphere that it lower the worlds temperature so much that it snowed in the eastern U.S. in July and was known as the year without a summer.

But, nothing man has seen can begin to compare with the monster eruption of Santorini in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, in 1646 B.C. Some archeologists believe it was responsible for the destruction the mighty Minoan Civilization.
 
I watched as Mount St Hellen's erupted in 1980. As huge as that was, it is still nothing compared to what nature is capable of.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/msh/impact.html

Kilauea ? Just a minor side show compared to other volcanic events within the history of man.

At the bottom of the citation you will see a click-on "Comparison with other eruptions." That will give you an idea of how terrible volcanos can really be.

Think Mount St. Hellen's was really big ? Nope ! Aprox 640,000 years ago the super volcano under Yellowstone National Park erupted with a volume of spewed ash, 2,500 times greater than Mount St. Hellen's. If it did the same thing today, it would destroy all of North America, including Canada. That is the one to keep an eye on. Guess what ? It may be waking up. If so, the survivors will envy the dead.
 
Absolutely, thanks for the info, Traveler. I'm just glad that that the Hawaiian Islands were formed the way they were. Wouldn't hsve want to live anywhere else. I love it here and all because my dad is from here. His father was brought here from Japan to work here on the plantations and then his mother came here as his bride. And, yes, folks, they came here legally.
 
Hawaiian Shore Turned Into Apocolyptic Wasteland

More here.


It’s been over six weeks since lava fissures began erupting on Hawaii’s Big Island, and there’s still no end in sight. New videos taken by the US Geological Survey reveal the dramatic extent to which the encroaching lava has reshaped the surrounding landscape, turning once gorgeous beaches into a smoldering pile of volcanic waste.


This video, which was captured during a helicopter flight over the lower East Rift Zone on the morning of June 14, shows the lava spewing from Fissure 8 as it continues to feed channels of molten rock flowing into the ocean. The channel is currently moving in a northeast direction before it turns eastward toward the sea at Kapoho Crater.
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The lost home/house count keeps growing. It's not only about the structures loss that also means that area in general won't be fit to rebuild on for sometime. Hawaii already has some high real estate pricing partly because there are only so many places they can build. This will drive prices even higher because now areas farther away from the volcanoes will go up.

Best of luck to all those affected.
 
RadishRose said:
Beautiful footage, although tragic for living things. I really do wonder about the island becoming bigger when this is all over....I mean in usable land.
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I have read that there will be a lot of new land created, but that some of the "flow" makes kind of a shelf that ends up breaking off and sinking to the bottom of the ocean.
 

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