Iʻm grateful that we may be past the LaNina rains here in Keaau ma uka. Three months of nearly incessant sogginess did not for a pleasant disposition make in many of us up here. But life goes on, now again, in sunny, breezy, crisp, clean air.
Thanks to all for your comments. I appreciate them, though I canʻt respond. Weʻre up to nearly 390 on the list, and a Blog is apparently imminent. Stay tuned. In the meantime, your forwarding these to your friends and family is a big help, and helps avoid message limits (500 recipients per day on gmail as I understand it).
I apologize for forgetting the EQ graphics last time. And, remembering the frustrations of dial-up and other slow internet connections, I apologize for the big file size last time. Both issues are helping inspire a Blog.
Where to begin? Pelehonuamea continues her works. Here at the summit of Kilauea in Halemaʻumaʻu, and on the LERZ where she has appeared now since 1983, in 1977 (google "Oaka ka lani" for a commemorative chant written by Aunty Edith Kanakaole for that event at Puukiai), in 1960 at Kapoho (destroying a village of the same name), in 1955, in 1840, etc etc etc.
Halemaʻumaʻu is steamy this morning, and robustly so. I pop in and look at it throughout the day. Sometimes white, sometimes dark with ash:
Seems that many of us up here in Volcano are accepting of this latest activity. We are aware, we live our lives, weʻve done what we can to prepare for whatever it is we think may come. Then thereʻs The Media. Theyʻre mostly accurate and OK here, but on the Continent??? Aue!!! Someone shared this:
And last night, watching CNN no less!!!! one of their weather guys, Pedran Javaheri, said something to the effect that boulders the size of trucks will/may be lofted 20km (12.4274 miles) away. They showed an aerial of an empty Puuoo and faded to Halemaʻumaʻu, seeming to conflate the two. He should stick to rain and wind. And thunderstorms.
I think we should have "A Contest"! Seek and submit the most outrageous reportage for our entertainment. At some point you just gotta laugh. And yes, I used to get all irate at inaccurate and just plain wrong "reporting". Then a good friend told me "Bobby, you donʻt need to be right all the time. Let it go." Thus The Contest.
But I digress. So HMM continues to be steamy and sometimes ashy.
Pele continues to rend her skirt along the LERZ (Lower East Rift Zone for newbies), with 18 tears counted so far. MAP ATTACHED. As far as I know, the erupted lavas are still black and pasty. Likely remnants of 1955, erupted then in the same areas. I await the fresh, hotter, more gassy lava, which, if it surfaces, may fountain high.
ʻŌlaʻi (earthquakes = EQs) continue, most related to breaking of rocks in the ground as magma (lava thatʻs still in the earth) moves through it. TWO GRAPHICS ATTACHED.
The PG cam at Puna Geothermal Ventureʻs tower shows continued fuming along fissures uprift erupted earlier. That fume contains high levels of poisonous sulphur dioxide (SO2). And note again that the direction of the fume clouds change throughout the day as winds shift.
As always questions are welcome. Suggestions for Topics to be discussed are welcome too. And until a Blog becomes established, email rules and limitations mean that my Updates will only be presented in the morning. Hawaii County Civil Defense http://www.hawaiicounty.gov/
the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/
and The News will cover (we hope) anything out of the ordinary that happens:
This is a Civil Defense Message for Monday, May 14 at 7:25 in the morning.
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reports a new fissure in Lanipuna Gardens Subdivision has opened between fissure 15 and 16 at this time.
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