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Hawaii Volcano Eruption: Kilauea rocking island with MORE EARTHQUAKES as eruption persists

POLITICO Tube — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 23:03:51 +0000

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Hawaii volcano eruption: How bad is the collapse explosion at Kilauea volcano’s summit?

Georgina Laud — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 22:16:15 +0000

HAWAII’S Kilauea volcano has been erupting for more than two months and is showing no sign of slowing down. How bad is the collapse explosion at Kilauea volcano’s summit?

Continued lava flows, earthquakes and slumping caused by Kilauea have devastated Hawaii’s Big Island.

Some 6,100 acres have been covered in lava according to the United States Geological Survey, including areas where homes once stood.

The latest official number of houses that have been destroyed since the eruption began was 700, however as the eruption continues this number will continue to rise.

A Civil Defense warning read: “The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reports that Fissure 8 continues to erupt lava into the perched channel heading northeast from the vent.

“A flow moving around the west side of Kapoho Cone has proceeded to quarter of a mile to the coast.”

They also warn that lava is spilling over from the channel, causing dangerous streams of molten rock.

“Break outs are occurring from the main channel in Leilani Estates,” the agency added.

“The United States Geological Survey has confirmed that two homes on Luana St. have been destroyed by the break out and one home on Nohea St. is threatened.

“Be aware that spillovers of the channel and other breakouts are possible on the active flow field, do not access the active flow field due to extreme hazard.”

How bad is the collapse explosion at Kilauea volcano’s summit?

The USGS reported an explosion beneath the summit of Kilauea, occurring at 5.45am local time (4.45pm BST) on Wednesday, July 11.

The scientific agency said “a collapse/explosion occurred beneath Kilauea caldera with energy equivalent to a magnitude-5.3 earthquake.

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is spewing lava into the ocean.

“The number of earthquakes dropped from 30-40/hr to less than 10/hr.

“We expect the earthquakes to increase over the next day until the next collapse/explosion tomorrow.

“The collapse/explosive event this morning was followed by an increase in lava from the fissure 8 vent which has produced small overflows from the upper channel that are threatening a few homes on Nohea and Luana streets.”

There could be larger explosions following this one, following patterns from previous activity in the volcano.

Lava is flowing over the channel and into other streams

As the lava continues to spread, the landscape across Big Island is being changed forever.

The flow from fissure 8 that is entering the ocean has begun to create its own landmass, as the boiling lava meeting the cool ocean solidifies and builds up along the seabed.

This land mass is now 405 acres wide and is highly unstable.

Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim has extended the state of emergency for at least another 60 days, as scientists remain unable to predict when Kilauea will stop erupting.

Lava has flown from two fissures, fissure 8 and fissure 22

Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/987869/Hawaii-volcano-eruption-kilauea-latest-explosion-summit-collapse

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Tremors change life in Volcano: With no end in sight, stress levels rise

Michael Brestovanski - Hawaii Tribune-Herald — Sun, 01 Jul 2018 05:44:30 +0000

John Broward, chief ranger for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

If the lights by the window shake, it’s a magnitude 3. If the water sloshes out of the catchment tank, it’s a magnitude 5.

Living in a village rocked by hundreds of earthquakes — or, more accurately, earthquake-like tremors — each day, Volcano residents have developed their own unique measurements to determine which quakes are nothing to worry about and which ones might be something more.

“Every time, you wonder if this one’s going to be the big one, if this one isn’t going to stop,” said Volcano resident Tim Freeman.

Freeman was one of dozens of Volcano residents who attended a community meeting Thursday evening at Cooper Center, where representatives of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory explained the ongoing changes at Kilauea summit.

While attendees at the meeting were composed and responded to the speakers with good humor, one question was repeated over and over: “When will it end?”

The answer, repeated as many times, was “Nobody knows.”

“We don’t know if this is the beginning, the middle or if we’re getting close to the end,” said HVO geologist Don Swanson.

For several weeks, ground subsidence around the summit caldera following the recession of the lava reservoir has caused the volume of the crater to expand by approximately 10 million cubic meters per day, said HVO research geophysicist Kyle Anderson.

This subsidence is accompanied by semi-regular pressure explosions, and temblors which register as earthquakes of up to magnitude 5.4.

The explosions happen roughly once per day. Following an explosion, seismic activity lessens for a time, but additional tremors of increasing intensity occur throughout the day until another explosion settles the mountain for the next cycle.

The constant cycle is nerve-wracking for the village’s inhabitants.

“I’ve been staying outside all the time because I can’t stand listening to my house shake,” said resident Antoinette Bullough.

Lydia Meneses, another resident who lives less than 3 miles from the caldera, said the repeated quakes are taking their toll on her home.

“I’ve noticed the hairline cracks are getting more hairlines,” Meneses said.

More worrisome, Meneses said, is the surface of Piimauna Drive, the only road in or out of her subdivision. While the road is still passable, cracks in the surface have developed and expanded since the quakes began, leading Meneses to worry that eventually she might have no way out.

“People don’t understand what we’re going through,” Bullough said, explaining that neighborhood dogs, spooked by the shaking, bark incessantly, while the larger tremors are nearly impossible to sleep through.

“It’s a bit unnerving,” said Jim Wilson, a resident of Volcano for 25 years. “But there’s nothing any of us can do about it.”

During Thursday’s meeting, John Broward, chief ranger for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, said he was confident that the park will reopen eventually, although the park will be drastically changed when it does. The ever-widening crater already has swallowed a parking lot, with Jaggar Museum — now stripped of its exhibits — likely to follow.

However, HVO representatives reassured residents that the caldera collapse is not expected to spread far from the summit. Cracks in Volcano road surfaces are entirely caused by repeated stress — i.e., constant shaking — rather than volcanic fissures or sinking land.

Residents remain uneasy though, and with far fewer visitors to Volcano now that the park is closed, residents and business owners wait in a constantly shaking limbo for things to return to normal.

“It’s more stressful than annoying right now,” Wilson said. “Not seeing any end to it is what makes it so stressful.”

Email Michael Brestovansky at mbrestovansky@hawaiitribune-herald.com.

Source: http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2018/07/01/hawaii-news/tremors-change-life-in-volcano-with-no-end-in-sight-stress-levels-rise/

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AASHTO Journal Video–Volcano Update: Hawaii

Asshto video — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 21:11:51 +0000

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Hawaii volcano’s toll nears 600 homes destroyed by lava; no end in sight

Barnini Chakraborty - Fox News — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 21:03:25 +0000

The number of homes and structures destroyed by lava on Hawaii’s Big Island has jumped to nearly 600 — making the Kilauea eruption the most catastrophic event in modern state history, Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim said Thursday.

Kim, who lost his own home to the devastating magma march that began in May, has been pushing for more funding to help thousands of displaced residents.

That help came Thursday after Hawaii Gov. David Ige signed a memorandum of understanding that freed up $12 million in immediate disaster relief to the island. The money covers overtime pay for police, fire, public works and civil defense personnel. It also provides funds for equipment needed for evacuations and rebuilding.

“This is an ongoing emergency and we’re in the early stages of damage assessment, but we do know that costs for overtime, equipment and materials are mounting,” Ige said. “This funding will help the county continue to protect the health, safety and welfare of area residents.”

“This is an ongoing emergency and we’re in the early stages of damage assessment, but we do know that costs for overtime, equipment and materials are mounting.”

– Hawaii Gov. David Ige

Kim, who had previously said it would take a minimum of $5 million per mile to repair roads ravaged by Kilauea, said the $12 million will help Hawaii County “focus on the critical tasks of making life better for our people affected by the eruption.”

Ige and Kim also announced the formation of a federal, state and local task force that would develop a recovery plan for the hardest-hit communities.

“Our responsibility is to try to work with the community to rebuild out of harm’s way,” Kim said.

Thousands of residents have been left shell-shocked by the devastation that’s been pounding the island. Most recently, a huge river of lava has engulfed two entire seaside subdivisions – Vacationland and Kapoho Beach Lots. That’s on top of the losses at Leilani Estates, one of the first areas to feel the destructive power of Kilauea.

“So if you combine the three of them, we’re talking about 600 homes,” Kim said, adding that the number doesn’t account for the farmers, ranchers and their employees forced off their land and out of work.

Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey say they don’t know when the volcanic activity will stop.

Late Thursday, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported that fissure 8 “is very active and producing a large channelized flow that has filled in Kapoho Bay.”

HVO said the lava delta is 1.2 miles wide and added that “ocean entry is sending a large laze plume into the air along the coastline.”

As of early Friday 24 separate fissures covered nearly 8 square miles of land in lava. The fountain of lava at fissure 8 has reached as high as 250 feet in the air.

If that wasn’t enough, residents have had to deal with more than 9,000 earthquakes that have rattled the Big Island since May 3. The largest, a magnitude 6.9, produced an ash plume that was 30,000 feet high.

Four lava flows have reached the blue waters of the Pacific Ocean.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/06/08/hawaii-volcanos-toll-nears-600-homes-destroyed-by-lava-no-end-in-sight.html

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Volcano ERUPTION WARNING: Tens of volcano earthquakes RUMBLING around the world

Amani Hughes — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 06:36:17 +0000

A LARGE number of earthquakes have been felt beneath volcanoes across the world, sparking fears of major eruptions, so are any volcanoes erupting and could there be a violent explosion?

In Hawaii a total of 18 earthquakes have been measured under Kilauea volcano during the last 18 hours.The largest earthquakes measured on the Big Island was a magnitude 2.2 earthquake measured on Wednesday, 6km southwest of the volcano.Kilauea is showing increased signs of activity, as the summit lava lake remains at a high level and continues to rise.

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory spokeswoman Janet Babb said: “Overall, it’s been on the high side. With this latest inflation, it’s just pushing up even higher.

According to the HVO, the lava level is continuing to rise and there has been a slight increase in seismicity on the East Rift Zone near the summit area.In Mexico the Cerro Prieto volcano is showing an increase in activity with a magnitude 2.4 earthquake measured.The volcano is located in the Mexican state of Baja California ad the quake measured might be volcanic in original at a depth of 12km.A volcano tectonic earthquake is an earthquake induced by the movement – either injection or withdrawal – of magma. These earthquakes do not indicate the volcano will be erupting but can occur at anytime.

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Volcano ERUPTION WARNING: A number of earthquakes have been felt under volcanoes across the world

A swarm of earthquakes has been detected under the Clear Lake volcano in California – 16 have been measured during the past 21 hours at depths ranging between 4.4 and 0.2km.Clear Lake Volcanic Field is located about 90 miles north of San Francisco and the most prominent volcanic feature is 300,000 year-old Mount Konocti.The volcanic field has not erupted for several millennia, sporadic volcanic-type earthquakes do occur and the numerous hot springs and volcanic gas seeps at in the area point to its potential to erupt again.Across the world, in Greece, a magnitude 2.7 earthquake was felt beneath the Nisyros volcano which may have been volcanic in its origin.

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Volcano ERUPTION WARNING: Kilauea in Hawaii has shown signs of increased activity

The Greek Island is in the Aegean and is the youngest volcano along a rift in the Southern Aegean and has experienced at least three major eruptions in the past 45,000 years.

One of these, around 16,000 years ago, was particularly destructive, blanketing a wide area with volcanic ash.The Sakurajima volcano in Japan has recently been showing high levels of activity.At the beginning of April, there were between two to four vulcanian explosions per day, increasing the total number for recorded explosions this year to 32 so far.

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Volcano ERUPTION WARNING: Live camera image showing Io Yama erupting on southwest island of Kyushu

Explosive activity was recorded at Sabancaya in Peru, with explosions averaging at 15 per day between April 9-15.Gas and ash plumes rose as high as 2.2km above the crater rim and minor ash fall was reported in Huambo and Cabanaconde.The report noted the public should not approach the crater within a 12km radius.In Japan, the Io Yama volcano was caught erupting and emitting a huge ash cloud on Japan Meteorological Agency’s live camera on the southwest island of Kyushu, Japan on April 19.

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Volcano ERUPTION WARNING: Could the earthquakes trigger a volcanic eruption?

The volcano has been showing weak to strong ash emissions since the beginning of the month.Despite these recent earthquakes, there is no suggestion it will lead to the volcanoes erupting, as only a few historic large regional earthquakes – greater than magnitude 6 – are considered by scientists to be related to an eruption or unrest at a nearby volcano.As the earthquakes measured at these volcanoes have been magnitude 2 or less, it is not expected to lead to volcanic eruptions.

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