Photos 5, page 12
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Eruption Update
| March 28 - May 2, 2008 |
| Now we're going to go back and see what the lava's been doing since we last checked on 3/20. Here are some more photos from the Hawaii Volcano Observatory archives: |
| 3/28/08 Left - A view of the lava entry to the sea. You can see the lava spreading into the vegetation in the middle of the photo, flowing to the right. The lava is coming down through Royal Gardens (where the smoke is in the far upper left of the image). The lava to the right of that vegetation is where I hiked on 2/17 & 2/23, trying to get to the top of the pali. In the middle right of the image you can see some turquoise dots beside the road. Those are the priveys placed by the county for the people out to view the lava. On the far right, just off the shore, you can see little white dots. That's the viewing area marked out by the county. Cannot go off the path! Right - same thing from a different angle. Viewing area at the lower left. |
| 4/1/08 <-- Looking southwest along the coast. Note the houses still standing out in the lava field. The viewing area is in the middle right. 4/3/08 Pu'u O'o --> |
| 4/3/08 Pu'u O'oLooking west along the East Rift Zone. in the distance with a plume below it coming from the source of the Royal Gardens lava flow. Kilauea is beyond Pu'u O'o. |
| 4/3/08 Looking northeast along the coast. The viewing area is barely visible in the upper left. Morning sun. |
| 4/3/08 The lava in the foreground is old. The lava above it is new. On the right, you can see the lava flow coming down the access road which I show on 3/20 & 3/21. |
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| 4/6/08 "Littoral" explosions |
| <--Looking at the ocean entry, Royal Gardens with Pu'u O'o above it and the plume from Halema'uma'u Crater off in the distance. A shot from just above Pu'u O'o --> looking back at Halema'uma'u plume |
| 4/24/08 Here's a thermal image of the lava in the area of the ocean entry. |
| 4/27/08 And here's a beautiful image taken of the Halema'uma'u vent from the Hawaiian Volcanoes Observatory next to Jaggar Museum. |
| Maps of the lava flows. Lava tubes occur when a surface flow of lava skins over on top due to contact with the much cooler air. Eventually, this forms a hard surface which insulates the lava below, allowing it to flow much farther. Beneath the hardened crust on the surface rivers of lava flow freely. |
| shown here, can reveal the location of subsurface lava tubes by showing linear traces of warm ground above the tube. This image shows the two tubes which feed the Waikupanaha delta. The eastern tube, though still warm, appears to be inactive. |
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