VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) — Experts remained flummoxed Friday about when Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano will calm down.
The Big Island volcano exploded at its summit Thursday, sending ash and rocks thousands of feet into the sky.
Scientists said the eruption was the most powerful in recent days, though it probably lasted only a few minutes.
It came two weeks after the volcano began sending lava flows into neighborhoods 25 miles (40 kilometers) to the east of the summit, destroying 26 homes.
A new lava vent — the 22nd such fissure — was reported Friday by county civil defense officials.
Several open fissure vents are still producing lava splatter and flow in evacuated areas. Gas is also pouring from the vents, cloaking homes and trees in smoke.
The fresher, hotter magma will allow faster lava flows that can potentially cover more area, said Janet Babb, a geologist with the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. more
Hawaii’s gettin bigger.
Invest now!
Kinda like the news about the FBI spying operation.
“Scientists unsure when Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano will quiet” , but they know so much about solar winds. 😉
Pele is female, and therefore fickle.
Bow and make offerings, she will be appeased eventually.
And if any of you haolis took a piece of lava home to the mainland for a souvenir, mail it back now.
“Experts remained flummoxed about when Hawaii’s volcano will calm down.”
They’re talking about Obama, aren’t they?
Lazlo tried living on the Big Island about ten years ago.
It turned out disastrously.
I ran afoul of the locals, and got the hell out of there.
What do you think of my revenge so far?
When the giant asteroid hits it, that’s when.
But they can predict global warming a hundred years out. obammy’s sacrifice would appease the citizenship gods.
No talk that I have heard about how this affects “globull warming” and what we should do about it.
It’ll end when it stops. An hour. A month. A year.
What scientists don’t know about our planet could fill the streets of Kilauea and does.