Eruption Happening NOW Big Island Hawaii - Massive Flooding Ongoing From Lane

Also, the news seems to be right, the Geothermal Plant is right next to the rift zone.

You could easily see one from the other.

great photo of the lava...


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Great thread. 5 stars. I'm sorry for the people who have to evacuate, but interesting natural event.

They said the lava was headed in that direction.
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I saw somewhere else it supplies about 30% of the Island's power.

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live youtube feed here:

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Not good. Just did the math, plant is only about 800m (2600 feet) from the rift.

Ha, I went to school with the girl anchor on the Hawaii News Now livestream.

In 1990, lava from a different vent on Kilauea took out Royal Gardens subdivision and Kalapana on the Big Island. So, it's happened before. Maybe this one potentially affects more people, not sure. I'm not from the Big Island, so I'm not familiar with the area. I do have family on the Big Island, but on the other side.

People on other islands should be ok. For those not familiar with the geography, the Big Island is at the bottom of the island chain, it's the biggest/newest island (well, there's a newer island forming in the ocean off the Big Island) in the chain, and the island currently over the magma hot spot in the tectonic plate. All the islands have slowly moved over the hot spot at various times in history.

It would suck to lose your house, but the land is cheaper around the active volcano area for a reason.

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There is far worse coming

Absolutely stunning drone video of the eruption of Hawaii's #kilauea volcano. Mandatory evacuations for the Leilani Estates subdivision have been ordered.

Great - 90 second video
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New footage, shows crack just before eruption, chopper on scene, and some evacuations.

Also, google image search "kilauea smile" :)

Different anchors on the Hawaii News Now livestream now, and one of my siblings went to school with the guy anchor, I think. Sorry, I just find it funny how small Hawai'i is, lots of people all know each other.

I've said it before in another thread, but I had a college geology professor who said that lots of homes on the Big Island are technically in lava zones, whether they realize it or not.

And again, Hawai'i volcanoes have less viscous magma, so eruptions come out more as liquid lava that runs down to the ocean. It won't be a huge, explosive ash cloud like what can happen in Indonesia. It can take out homes and subdivisions. Maybe a huge enough earthquake could trigger a local tsunami, but that hasn't happened in at least hundreds of years, and I don't know how likely that would be (probably not likely at all).

Stay safe, Islanders.

Better ask congress

AMEN!

This is not effecting those of us on Oahu (yet) but I imagine that the airport is getting swamped like crazy.

The Big Island is 2x bigger and has more people. Where do they all go? Oahu....



The state is going to have to declare a state of emergency it it blows any more. There was ash falling all over Oahu on Tuesday afternoon over by the North Shore....black flakes all in the sky....that was two days ago and nobody gave a real answer why but common sense says something was burning in the air.

Respect for madame pele.

I stayed in Kapoho once. Many times on Kohala. I love that island.

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Ashes all the way to Oahu? Did Kauai get some too?

They began shut down earlier today. By now the plant should be evacuated.

Hawaiians know how do handle this, still the loss of property could be devastating.

OH an big island is bigger than oahu.. but less people bro

Interesting map showing the area with increased seismic activity since April 30...

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People have expected this to happen for years, that's why land is so cheap in Puna.

Still, wishing the best for everyone in the area.

The vog is going to be pretty intense Island-wide and on the other islands too.

There have been a lot of threads on GLP about earthquakes on the Big Island leading up to this in the past week.

Someone even predicted Kiluaea was going to erupt a few days ago.

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Downtown Hilo, there are termites everywhere. They are covering the street lights and the roads

uck.

What right now?

I’m fine with 5.0. But you should definitely post much less coward.

Are you all hoping it'll wipe the Big Island out since it's populated by a bunch of liberals?