To quote Lucy van Pelt of “Peanuts,” “Good grief, Charlie Brown.” Here is the latest on Kilauea’s eruption on the Big Island: As Hurricane Hector heads toward Hawaii's Big Island, the last active fissure on Kilauea's lower east zone has ceased its fiery eruptions. pic.twitter.com/cauApWrk0R — NBC News (@NBCNews) August 7, 2018 And here is …
Isn’t this beautiful? The USGS Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS) team conducted a flight on K?lauea Volcano’s lower East Rift Zone to collect video in the upper lava channel of fissure 8. When it is dark the incandescence (glow) of lava is easy to see against the darkened surroundings. Overnight UAS missions are the most efficient …
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Here’s the latest update from the USGS Hawai’i Volcano Observatory. This was issued at 2:34PM HST today: Vigorous eruption of lava continues from the lower East Rift Zone (LERZ) fissure system in the area of Leilani Estates. This morning, lava fountaining at Fissure 8 continued to reach heights of 150-180 feet, feeding a stable channel …
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If you want to see more of Kilauea’s current eruption, watch this half-hour documentary put together by one of our local TV stations. Hawaii News Now – KGMB and KHNL
It’s methane gas.
We have been watching Kilauea for a long time now. From Wikipedia: The current Kilauea eruption began on January 3, 1983, along the eastern rift zone. The vent produced vigorous lava fountains that quickly built up into the Pu’u ‘O’o cone, sending lava flows down the volcano’s slope. In 1986, activity shifted down the rift …
Have you heard the story of this 2-person utility company from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s hometown which managed to get a $300M contract from Puerto Rico to repair the territory’s electrical grid? That seems a little bit crony-ish, does it not? Well, the contract has surfaced: Boom. Leaked copy of the Puerto Rico / Whitefish …
Every day in every way imaginable this man embarrasses the United States, its citizens, and even himself (if he had the capacity to realize it). His performance in Puerto Rico today was appalling. “Every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina, and you look at the tremendous — …
I know it. I know I’ve said enough about the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico and their suffering from Irma’s effects. But man alive, our news media stinks sometimes. On the Evening News from both CBS and NBC their reporters in the Florida Keys repeated the same phrase: “Here, where Irma made its first …
If you look at Fox, CBS or NBC today you’ll see the opening games of the NFL season, played in glorious sunshine on pretty green fields, with thousands of people in the stands. If you look at cable Fox, CNN and MSNBC you’ll see reporters out in the streets in various cities in Florida, all …