The U.S. Geological Survey is technically a part of our government, so we already, technically, have that. You can't expect any President, or Congress, to take note of geological events such as this, especially on a tiny set of islands that are literally tens of thousands of miles from Washington D.C. So that's why they created the USGS in the first place. America's government, like ANY government (don't you dare make the mistaken assumption that ANY government on Planet Earth is perfect in some way!), has different groups that do different things. The USGS, like FEMA, was built to render fast warning, and aid, in the event of disaster. Certainly faster aid than any politician can manage, that's for certain.
@@doxielain2231 If someone tells me I live near an active Volcano, and has proof, then I'm going to pretty quickly find a way to move away from said Volcano. I don't need Washington DC to tell me I'm in danger. People should be more than smart enough to determine that for themselves. We don't need more scientists in our government. The American people need to wield more common sense for themselves, and their families. Nobody HAS to live near a Volcano. They simply choose to.
I know you are being sarcastic, but the child in me wants to say that it is highly acidic and would melt anyone who tries to drink it. It is strictly vegan only water.
@@johndenicola6173 I did a 3D animated movie of the start of the 2018 volcanic event, by plotting ONLY the above sea level earthquake events. It shows clearly that the event started with a big move of the Hilina Slump which set everything else off. Also should be noted that 2 large EQ in the former Slump underwater remnants destabilized the Slump. www.nukepro.net/2019/11/the-hawaii-2018-volcanic-event-video.html This is being set off by magmatic nucleation of gases set off by very energetic Galactic Cosmic Rays which have increased steadily with the "Quiet Sun" and compression of Earth's magnetic field/shield. Pole shift doesn't help either. This is all my own research and goes outside what is "established science". Lot's of information on this site, but check this animation, it is very cool, AND explanatory. Hawaii has been pounded this week with earthquakes, as well as the NZ tragedy. I have been predicting this based on a prior very unusual 30 days of the Kp index being super low "on the floor", which continues today, expect more activity. stock out. Posted here czcams.com/video/KG2SLM2caVI/video.html
Yeah I was there in July 2015. And the area is totally different now. My mom has a house in Pahoa. And has sent me pics showing me how different the entire area is. Nature is crazy. How quickly it can drastically change a large area to make it unreconizable.
Ben Stankiewicz CNN, CBS, MSNBC, ABC will all report how Trump caused this as soon as they can all get together and agree on how they are gonna claim he did it.....
Are other wells in the area being monitored to assess whether sulfur dioxide levels could be migrating through the water table toward Volcano or other populated areas?
That would be a good question for that session. From what I could gather (and more of an assumption on my part), the fresh water of the water table is mixing with (absorbing) the SO2 that exists in the soils (volcanic rock, etc) that were produced in the magma flows - similar to salts being picked up in a river from soils and depositing into the oceans, hence salt water. It is my guess that the amount may be minimal and take some time to mix. Again, a good question, though.
The elements leaching into the crater pond won't move from their current location until the water has a reason to start flowing to other sources. As long as the water continues to flow into the crater, theres no reason to believe the sulfur and acidity will back-flow into the water table. I would also think that the porous pumice would be able to filter such things out given enough area seeing as it's not present in other areas with little to no activity.
Funny thing about water is that it always flows to the lowest point... So the answer is bloody obvious and reveals no conclusive data which is probably why the question wasnt posed
sulfur dioxide isn't particularly bad for you, at least in food. you don't wanna breathe that shit in. but it provides sulfur to the plants in the area which is an essential nutrient, and onions make your eyes burn cuse of sulfur dioxide. it turns into either sulfurus or sulfuric acid, i don't remember which one, when it mixes with water. i think probably H2SO3 instead of H2SO4, but i'm not 100% sure on that. (like maybe H2 gas is released, giving extra oxygens to the acid, idk) but unless it's in such high concentrations that it significantly acidifies the drinking water, it's not a health risk. it just smells bad. but it's actually really good for plants and their symbiotic microbes and fungi. considering the actual lake above the volcano is only pH 4, it's likely not affecting ground water in a way that's unhealthy for humans, though the water may smell distinctly more like eggs.
6:10. . . "There is a relationship between water and explosive activities. . . " The recent deaths of several tourists from an explosion like this in New Zealand on White Island ("Te Puia o Whakaari") is perfect proof of what this kind of explosion can do.
i don’t live near a volcano, i’ve never been to one and i have no intentions of going either. Yet, every time youtube recommends these videos to me i watch them and i’m utterly fascinated! (but i’ll never understand why people willingly choose to live close to any of them!)
The last time Yellow Stone erupted, it sent 2500 Cu. miles of rock into the atmosphere. It then covered 1/2 of the Continental US and part of Mexico in ash. Volcanic Winter followed. Merry Christmas.
Scott Pierce because it’s often hard to detect sarcasm in comments...yes I do realize I wouldn’t be safe here either! Hell, if Yellowstone (or any of the other super volcanoes) blows again most people won’t be safe...regardless what their location is 😱🥺
i think the point is that when it wakes up, that little lake drains down into the magma and generates a massive steam powered explosion, like an industrial boiler accident times a hundred or even a thousand.
@Justin RussIf your masters tell you humans are cause of "global melting", you're all in. Feb. 5 2019, CNN report: Since 2001 MNP has move 35 miles per year. If you haven't updated your devices since February's recalibration, and used your gps to find magnetic North you'd be facing West. Off by 1100 miles. Not movies REAL SCIENCE
@Justin Russ Dramatic? You told me to go watch another movie. For the last 2000 years Magnetic North has been a navigational absolute wandering a few inches per year. In the last 18 years it has moved 1000 miles in a straight line. Our magneto sphere has weakened to nearly 1/2 power in only 30 years. You're a zombie but won't know it until limbs start falling off.
@Justin Russ You looked it up. Wikipedia is for morons who do research after they make an argument. I've been following this for 2 decades. Since 2001 the north pole has moved an avg. of 34 miles per year, and 1100 miles in a straight line. Yes it could reverse, but were 570,000 years overdue for a flip. Negative energy? Try this, global warming is a lie used to perpetute fear, taxes and Sovereign control. New World Order. pdr
compared to hell its a nice cool bath. The fires of hell are white hot, the bad news is you never die, you just experience all the agony of death over, and over, and over, and over, and over etc. and then after a few million years you will experience it all over again, and again, and again, and it just never stops.
@@Ixions Our Creator for the purpose of receiving their inheritance according to their works on Earth, darkness has no place in the light, the wicked reap what they sow and have no place among the just and righteous!
Eh.... It's interesting, but unless you love working in backwater places finding good jobs is difficult. I worked in lab/field geology for about 8 years... back to electronics and computers now. Data science for geology would be a good way to get in the door now with a computer science background.
What is the value of Science? To understand the physics of our universe and every intricate detail of it's outcome. I doubt the simulators care about us. All we have is curious scientists like him that make the difference between an educated populs or a dead one. This has now become absolutely clear to me.
A crater can have more valleys to collect water. An example: Hverfjall in Iceland Also the deepest part could just boil the water away. That case the water would have come from precipitation and not from the water table. So a crater has not always a simple shape - just like you saw in the first pictures, there is a plateau. Maybe even a small pond or a puddle :)
To all the people in this comments, he's a scientist not an oracle! It's good that he says what they know, and what they don't know! p.s how is the vog in the areas around Kilauea?
What I want to know is if anything is growing in that lake. 70 `C, pH 4.5, and nice supply of sulfur are well within the growth conditions that thermophilic organisms are known to thrive in.
Good question, my guess would be: yes. I'm guessing there was a pre-existing thermophilic sulfur-liking bacteria in the ground water deep around the volcano, and those organisms would simply migrate in with the ground water and thrive.
Doesn't take much time because there's already critters living down there. They keep finding stuff living miles below the surface, buried for millions of years. Happily doing their thing. Makes me excited to find out what's potentially living down below the surface of Mars. Seeing as they've been detecting seasonal methane and oxygen , I suspect it's pretty likely.
@@OPrincessXJasmineO : 60 yards, a few inches everyday (let's say 2 inches). There is 36 inches in a yard. That is 18 * 60 = 540 days if activity continues unchanged, before the lake is fully grown.
Kilauea! It's enthralling and, in my opinion, the USGS, and local Govt, does an amazing job of keeping the public informed with the current status of the volcano. I hope that any activity is not as disruptive as that of 2018. Merry Christmas all and be safe.
Just no. Obviously you have absolutely no idea. The USGS is actively downgraded earthquakes, and just outright not even reporting earthquakes in the Oregon and Washington areas. You think that's an amazing job? to not report potentially life saving information? Don't think for a second they are keeping the public "informed", because they are doing the absolute opposite. I am sure if you do a bit of searching you'll confirm what I am saying.
@@white94rabbit Sorry to disappoint you but I have just visited the USGS website titled "Latest Earthquakes" that shows a total of 14 of 36 occurring in the map area of the USA of magnitude 2.5 or greater. So, I totally disagree with what you are saying.
@@brianwhetton9621 Okay haha, Funny that you went to the USGS for your "search", like how brain dead can you be?The USGS are the ones I am talking about but you went straight there for your information. But ill let you believe what you want to believe, you have way to much faith in these agency's to inform the people. Hell, its not a few months ago an employee of the USGS, came out and said outright that they are activity covering up information. You seriously think you'll find any information like that going straight to the website in question? I guess you can't educate someone who has made their mind up already. You keep your faith in these agency's :) even scroll and read the comments, many people saying the exact same thing, because they probably live in these areas and have seen it first hand.
@@AMMandrea123 Well, if you had bothered to visit the USGS website, in particular "Real Time Data", you have a choice of activity to view e.g. EQ, Water, Floods, Geomagnetism, Landslides and Volcanoes among others. But I guess that a skeptic like you will probably think it's spin !
@@nicotti .Yes I know, it is located approximately in the middle of the ring making it vaguely connected. Being surrounded by instability is bound to have an effect. The point was more that the lack of notice taken in NZ cost lives and care should be taken.
@@shanevonharten3100 Look at the Earth, mate. The Hawaii hot spot has nothing to do with the Pacific Ring. Ring = tectonic plates, hot spot = hot spot. Wham. Bam. And you know how the Hawaiians know about volcanoes? They can see them.
Will there be any sulfur leaching in to the water table mentioned or any discoloration in the water table and is it detectable now is this water part of an aquifer possibly not making drinkable besides for the rotten egg smell affiliated with the sulfur , and also how many parts per million does the sulfur have to be to make it react to magma to make it detonate when it comes in contact , just curious
Good question actually.. the surrounding area residents rely on rainwater not well water for their needs catchment tanks are used everywhere. Businesses truck their water in from lower altitude county water supplies which are safe for drinking.👍
SWAM IN THAT LAKE 3 DAYS AGO ..... WAS DEFINITELY WARM AND FIZZY. MY SKIN FEELS ..... WELL ....KINDA LOOSE...... OHHH LOOKY THERE !! ...... MY SKIN JUST SLOUGHED OFF !! GRRRREEAATTTT !!
DO NOT TRY to Swim in this! Sulfuric acid, methane, and other gases are thoroughly all over in this water. Not to mention it is hot still, burns both from chemical and temperature possible. (Wish the researchers had stated this openly; they are sort of coerced to avoid saying anything that would damage the tourism industry.)
Gee whiz, thanks *+Noah Riding* for the warning. I mean, it looks +exactly+ the sort of place one would swim if visiting Hawaii. Who needs the beach when you can go swimming in a crater lake. And sure, accessibility is a bit of a problem but hey, it's so private.
In the first diagram there is a lava tube beneath the crater with separate water systems on either side. The next diagram shows water and no lava, did the hot spot just disappear or was this a different kind of system?
Yeah, the summit collapsed on Aug 2, 2018 and eruptions in the east rift zone dropped off a couple of days later. Until then it was crazy, though, if you look at the USGS QuakeMap data for the period up until Aug 2018, there were upwards of 600-700 earthquakes registered PER DAY (all magnitude 4.0 and lower). I think they even started filtering them out as a new channel because it made the app and website nearly useless.
KALUS DJ The two are not related. Hawaii is on a hot spot in the middle of the Pacific plate. New Zealand is at the edge of a subducting plate. Their volcanoes occur for different reasons and one won’t affect the other.
I like how people put professionals in a category of people that cannot be challenged. History shows that professionals are always right and have never come to unscientific conclusions.
@@candasmith That may be true - human nature, but there is also a level of expertise that these geologists have, and they are merely pointing to observed information, and the information here is not questionable. Any ** good ** professional would also welcome relevant questions and be happy to answer and explain them. Not worth getting into a debate of *societal hierarchy at all. (*although I wish people would not put others of given professional levels on pedestals, and conversely, certain professionals using their degrees, etc. to rationalize putting themselves on such pretentious pedestals).
I love raw nature like this. If I had the money, I would vacation to different volcanos around the world and fill tiny vials with this lake water as a souvenir... Question is would customs let me bring them home?
The magma chamber is many miles below the mountain, in the Ocean floor crust, the mountain/island is just the pipeline to the surface. That makes it even more amazing IMO.
The island gets lots of water from rain in any kind of mountain. While the water is under the soil and rock its seeping downwards covered. This means that even while there's heat the water can't evaporate so its still constant in being there, and while moving downhill can seep out into the center of the cone. At least this is my understanding. I am not an expert. The idea that water can't evaporate while covered by rock, mud, and dirt should hold even if people have other ideas. And the water could flow downwards. This is reasonable. Ice pack snow flows in normal mountains do this, often creating what people call artesian wells in other places of the west. (By mentioning artesian wells I'm referring to normal non-volcanic Rocky Mountain snow pack ground flow melt flows, not those that are volcanic and dangerous for human consumption.)
It is by USGS scientists who advise the local government regarding safety, which is why it’s rarely in the headlines - well, that and not many Aussie tourists.
Wow! Some of these comments make me never want to vacation in Hawaii. It sounds like you all hate us mainlanders. BTW, I’m a little old lady from a small town in Pennsylvania, and you are all welcome here anytime!
I've been to Hawaii. It's very expensive. And it "rains" practically every day, at least it did then when I went. But it was more like a misty rain, you could stay out by the pool during the rain. How do they know none of this water collecting is from rainfall? They've even had snow for one of the first time in anyones memory.
@captaincaveman1 from all my trips I see the locals trashing the place more than anyone else they dump trash everywhere. they have that your not from here west Virginia holler vibe too
RuthieSeptember See there's the problem, you don't live in a tourist town. Live a few years in one and you'll realize how annoying tourists can be. I lived in Branson, MO for close to a decade, that was enough.
I believe the last question in the video , the question the woman was asking indirectly was: Is the volcano contaminating the groundwater a mile away ? The answer is or will be Hell yes ! So upgrade all the water filtration systems RIGHT NOW. Even if there is not eruption or explosion there will be increased contaminants in the groundwater.
Thank you for the fascinating presentation. I am entirely enthralled by geology and volcanology. I am equally disgusted by the ignorance of most of the comments. I know you guys cannot really speak out in the context of your jobs, but I can. These are some dumb mofos, and it is an insult to the evolution of our species if they breed.
NO ONE forced you to come here lol 😂😂 and you can leave at ANYTIME and we'd support you 110%. Lol then when you go back to wherever you're from, you can tell all your friends to not come to Hawaii. Instead go to the Bahamas, or Puerto Rico or like literally ANYWHERE but here. We'll be BETTER OFF with y'all gone 🤙🤙👏👏
@@SovereignHawaii Sure ...we'll leave....but we take all the military bases with us,along with our money as well...we'll bring all our scientist back to the mainland...oh yeah you'll need a government to get stuff from the US ,and if you visit us don't forget your passport....oh and if more eruptions happen ,which we know will happen)...you have to pay us for anything we do for you......also be advised the as soon as we leave ..the chinese will move in...whether you want them or not................be very careful for what you ask for.
@@morgangrey4020 okay first of all, who's to say we wouldn't get reparations for the prolonged occupation? And two isn't that kinda the point? Of course Rome wasn't built in a day, so that would mean the US would slowly leave. Not just one day they're here and one day they're gone. That's unrealistic lol. As for China encroaching into Hawaii territory then one, would that be your problem to deal with? Two wouldn't that "justify" your claims that the US is "nicer" than other nations? And three wouldn't that give y'all fair game to nuke the islands into oblivion (cause the Chinese were so bad and weren't the natives from Hawai'i anyway)? I think all of your points are INVALID but sure. Let's go with that
@jediphilosopher Oh dear! That devious Hawaiian Volcano! "Waiting until I just give up waiting"... and then it will blow!! I'll wear a disguise - it'll never know it's me - hahahahaha
it won't. It's different type of volcano. You want to avoid the volcano's with silica rich magma. The hawian chain has some small threats (like falling into an old lava tube, steam vent, fissure, etc) but no real crazy stuff. The magma feeding the islands chain has more iron and stuff and less silica since it is not coming through a continental plate, but instead through the relatively thin oceanic crust.
Given that the pond is at the bottom of a inverted cone a steady 15cm increase in water level per day actually means that while the growth is steady flow rate into the pond is increasing rapidly.
So the usgs message is they are not sure of anything could be bad could be nothing so hold your breath and count until usgs figures it out like when it blows up or when it dosnt ? Maybe if and when
This volcano will now have a rest for another 15 years. Next time it blows, the place will not have a peak. It will blow sideways and take off a big area.
That lake is thousands of feet up on a mountain, not down in inhabited areas. Much of Hawaii's big island is uninhabited lava beds...take a look on Google maps, you'd be surprised how much of the island is just stark, empty, solidified lava beds.
Wow, there are some seriously ignorant comments here, and they cover a wide range of beliefs and opinions. When did giving an update on a crater pond by geologists become so controversial? As someone living a few miles from this area, maybe I can clear up some misconceptions about the region. First off, people here are like people most anywhere. Most work to support families, there are groups of retirees, some homeless. Most people are pretty nice, there are some that aren't and have turned to racism to justify their outlook on life. This area of Hawaii, is one of the poorer ones, and people here have their fair share of the problems associated with that SEC. White people are a minority, so they catch more than their fair share of low key abuse and mistrust, but not as much as some other groups, such as Micronesians. The Hawaiian Sovereignty protagonists are very vocal and everyone but themselves are tired of hearing about it, but most people are pretty tolerant of the ranting and raving. Without the volcanic activity, there wouldn't be any islands. The vast majority of the island is unaffected by the volcanic activity but you see the evidence of it everywhere. Even though I only live a few miles away and could theoretically experience a lava flow, it's not something I worry about. Nor do most people. Obviously, when dealing with nature on this magnitude, it is impossible to predict with 100% accuracy what will happen next. All the islands have experienced this and more. From lava, to massive landslides, earthquakes and tsunamis . At some point that will happen here, and if people are where it happens, there will be loss of life. There are higher than normal levels of various hydrogen sulfides, sulfur dioxides etc in the air. Sometimes its worst than others and is called Vog. Parts of the area experience very high rainfall. Sometimes you go from a 160" of rain to a desert in less than a few miles. There is a substantial water table contained within the land mass and supported by the more dense seawater. There appears to be separate water table(s) at different elevations due to varying porosity of stone trapping water. Most of the water quality is pretty decent, but areas near the magma experience various natural pollutants. Unless you live near the coast or in one of the dry areas, most people use catchment systems filled with rainwater. It is then filtered and typically UV treated.
J Denmark, thank you! I was just in the Big Island. I lived in Honaunau for years and my heart is still there. Volcano park was splendid as all the diverse terrains of the Island. It’s good to keep an eye on the activity of Kilauea, it’s their job and we’re watching this video for a reason. I have friends in Pahoa who didn’t evacuate and there they stay for many years. They don’t live in paranoia. I love that Island and my kids were born there so there is a deep connection for us that others may not get. Mahalo for your comments.
It might. That's what this man pointed out. Ash deposits from hundreds / thousands of years ago show highly explosive eruptions have occurred in the past.
The hot magma that is currently refilling the magma chamber, could turn the water in the water table to steam. Steam will expand rapidly, with explosive power. So basically he was saying, the next eruption could be quite dangerous with explosions. 🥴
But a geothermal operation can drill into the flank of an active volcano_god for the purpose of running turbines to produce electricity? The whole groundwater-meets-volcano thing is a bit more complex than a 6th grade geology textbook's cop-out of a diagram. The 2018 'eruption' changed the whole superstructure of the magma chamber. -I'm guessing If I were Hawaiian I would DEMAND a public inquiry into the nature of the relationship between PGV and the USGS.
The government we want: rational, scientific, engaged with the community, and devoted to the public good.
The U.S. Geological Survey is technically a part of our government, so we already, technically, have that.
You can't expect any President, or Congress, to take note of geological events such as this, especially on a tiny set of islands that are literally tens of thousands of miles from Washington D.C. So that's why they created the USGS in the first place. America's government, like ANY government (don't you dare make the mistaken assumption that ANY government on Planet Earth is perfect in some way!), has different groups that do different things. The USGS, like FEMA, was built to render fast warning, and aid, in the event of disaster. Certainly faster aid than any politician can manage, that's for certain.
@@shindari Yes, I'm saying that this is what is good in my government, and that I want more like this.
@@doxielain2231 If someone tells me I live near an active Volcano, and has proof, then I'm going to pretty quickly find a way to move away from said Volcano. I don't need Washington DC to tell me I'm in danger. People should be more than smart enough to determine that for themselves.
We don't need more scientists in our government. The American people need to wield more common sense for themselves, and their families. Nobody HAS to live near a Volcano. They simply choose to.
@@shindari We need more scientists in our government and everywhere else to deal with uninformed idiots.
Nah government needs to fuck off and play its role as described in the damn constitution.
Pretty professional update with actual useful information...
Looks like the freshest of the freshest natural spring water to me, boiled to extreme perfection. Fiji water competitor= Lava water
I know you are being sarcastic, but the child in me wants to say that it is highly acidic and would melt anyone who tries to drink it. It is strictly vegan only water.
@@NoobNoobNews yes, purely extreme sarcasm
Volcano water smells like farts.
Coming soon: The Kilauea Spa. Come bathe in the mineral waters of Lake Kilauea.
Poach your eggs here.
Go right ahead please .leave next of kin information at the ranger station, they will ship the slurry that is all that's left of you.
“Liquid hot MAGMA” (while doing finger quotes)
jammasterjay, lol!
jammasterjay
Bravo........... bravo.......
LOL!
"laser"
also He needs to eat more...
Actually an insane change compared to three years ago
2018 was nuts.
Absolutely. It was a very interesting eruption and flow that occurred last year. I followed it very closely (almost daily). It's quite intriguing.
@@johndenicola6173 I did a 3D animated movie of the start of the 2018 volcanic event, by plotting ONLY the above sea level earthquake events. It shows clearly that the event started with a big move of the Hilina Slump which set everything else off. Also should be noted that 2 large EQ in the former Slump underwater remnants destabilized the Slump.
www.nukepro.net/2019/11/the-hawaii-2018-volcanic-event-video.html
This is being set off by magmatic nucleation of gases set off by very energetic Galactic Cosmic Rays which have increased steadily with the "Quiet Sun" and compression of Earth's magnetic field/shield. Pole shift doesn't help either. This is all my own research and goes outside what is "established science". Lot's of information on this site, but check this animation, it is very cool, AND explanatory.
Hawaii has been pounded this week with earthquakes, as well as the NZ tragedy. I have been predicting this based on a prior very unusual 30 days of the Kp index being super low "on the floor", which continues today, expect more activity. stock out.
Posted here
czcams.com/video/KG2SLM2caVI/video.html
@@777Macau Thanks, I'll have to check it out!
Yeah I was there in July 2015. And the area is totally different now. My mom has a house in Pahoa. And has sent me pics showing me how different the entire area is. Nature is crazy. How quickly it can drastically change a large area to make it unreconizable.
Excellent briefing by a research geologist at Kilauea.
good report. just the facts..how refreshing
Ben Stankiewicz
CNN, CBS, MSNBC, ABC will all report how Trump caused this as soon as they can all get together and agree on how they are gonna claim he did it.....
Rick Sanchez C137 yup, and the sheep would actually buy that crap.
@@raizbemnutella119 what do you guys get out of being trolls? Honestly you both need a healthier way to enjoy yourselves. Juvinile.
Daniel Holland I’m just stating the facts, y’all blame everything on trump and believe everything that CNN says.
AtomSmasher78 did CNN tell you that too?
Are other wells in the area being monitored to assess whether sulfur dioxide levels could be migrating through the water table toward Volcano or other populated areas?
That would be a good question for that session. From what I could gather (and more of an assumption on my part), the fresh water of the water table is mixing with (absorbing) the SO2 that exists in the soils (volcanic rock, etc) that were produced in the magma flows - similar to salts being picked up in a river from soils and depositing into the oceans, hence salt water. It is my guess that the amount may be minimal and take some time to mix. Again, a good question, though.
I was wondering the same thing and was surprised that the question wasn’t posed.
The elements leaching into the crater pond won't move from their current location until the water has a reason to start flowing to other sources. As long as the water continues to flow into the crater, theres no reason to believe the sulfur and acidity will back-flow into the water table. I would also think that the porous pumice would be able to filter such things out given enough area seeing as it's not present in other areas with little to no activity.
Funny thing about water is that it always flows to the lowest point... So the answer is bloody obvious and reveals no conclusive data which is probably why the question wasnt posed
sulfur dioxide isn't particularly bad for you, at least in food. you don't wanna breathe that shit in. but it provides sulfur to the plants in the area which is an essential nutrient, and onions make your eyes burn cuse of sulfur dioxide. it turns into either sulfurus or sulfuric acid, i don't remember which one, when it mixes with water. i think probably H2SO3 instead of H2SO4, but i'm not 100% sure on that. (like maybe H2 gas is released, giving extra oxygens to the acid, idk)
but unless it's in such high concentrations that it significantly acidifies the drinking water, it's not a health risk. it just smells bad. but it's actually really good for plants and their symbiotic microbes and fungi.
considering the actual lake above the volcano is only pH 4, it's likely not affecting ground water in a way that's unhealthy for humans, though the water may smell distinctly more like eggs.
6:10. . . "There is a relationship between water and explosive activities. . . "
The recent deaths of several tourists from an explosion like this in New Zealand on White Island ("Te Puia o Whakaari") is perfect proof of what this kind of explosion can do.
This guy has a great way of explaining so that anyone could understand. Wow, prayers for safety for all on the big island, be safe.
i don’t live near a volcano, i’ve never been to one and i have no intentions of going either. Yet, every time youtube recommends these videos to me i watch them and i’m utterly fascinated! (but i’ll never understand why people willingly choose to live close to any of them!)
The last time Yellow Stone erupted, it sent 2500 Cu. miles of rock into the atmosphere. It then covered 1/2 of the Continental US and part of Mexico in ash. Volcanic Winter followed. Merry Christmas.
Scott Pierce well good thing I live in Canada then! 🤪
Scott Pierce because it’s often hard to detect sarcasm in comments...yes I do realize I wouldn’t be safe here either! Hell, if Yellowstone (or any of the other super volcanoes) blows again most people won’t be safe...regardless what their location is 😱🥺
@@pat5star you're right. We'd all be doomed.
Time to build more houses around it . Nothing to see here
When it wake's up you don't have to worry about that little lake.
The lake itself, not so much. The groundwater that the lake is a symptom of, quite a lot.
i think the point is that when it wakes up, that little lake drains down into the magma and generates a massive steam powered explosion, like an industrial boiler accident times a hundred or even a thousand.
Hisssssss...BOOM!
It's getting ready to BLOW
Note to everyone- probably don’t wanna be taking cruises or tours there....
Earth's poles are shifting now. Gonna make "global warming" look like a Hawaiian sunset.
@Justin RussIf your masters tell you humans are cause of "global melting", you're all in. Feb. 5 2019, CNN report: Since 2001 MNP has move 35 miles per year. If you haven't updated your devices since February's recalibration, and used your gps to find magnetic North you'd be facing West. Off by 1100 miles. Not movies REAL SCIENCE
@Justin Russ Dramatic? You told me to go watch another movie. For the last 2000 years Magnetic North has been a navigational absolute wandering a few inches per year. In the last 18 years it has moved 1000 miles in a straight line. Our magneto sphere has weakened to nearly 1/2 power in only 30 years. You're a zombie but won't know it until limbs start falling off.
@Justin Russ You looked it up. Wikipedia is for morons who do research after they make an argument. I've been following this for 2 decades. Since 2001 the north pole has moved an avg. of 34 miles per year, and 1100 miles in a straight line. Yes it could reverse, but were 570,000 years overdue for a flip. Negative energy? Try this, global warming is a lie used to perpetute fear, taxes and Sovereign control. New World Order. pdr
@Justin Russ USGS "7 inches per year on avg". from 1550 until 1860's. GFYS
That lake looks like a really good place NOT to go for a swim.
compared to hell its a nice cool bath. The fires of hell are white hot, the bad news is you never die, you just experience all the agony of death over, and over, and over, and over, and over etc. and then after a few million years you will experience it all over again, and again, and again, and it just never stops.
@@NaYawkr Who would create such a place and why?
@@NaYawkr love it that's where the wicked satanic regimes will receive their eternal punish over and over again bring it on!
@@Ixions Our Creator for the purpose of receiving their inheritance according to their works on Earth, darkness has no place in the light, the wicked reap what they sow and have no place among the just and righteous!
@@NaYawkr You are long on assertions and very short on evidence, and claims without evidence are worthless.
I wish I studied earth sciences at University.
So much more interesting than computer science.
Follow dutchsince he has the latest in scientific observation in earthquake and volcanic predictions. 😬
Yes, kinda wish I had taken geology instead of chemistry...
@@DynamicSeq
It's never too late!
Eh.... It's interesting, but unless you love working in backwater places finding good jobs is difficult. I worked in lab/field geology for about 8 years... back to electronics and computers now. Data science for geology would be a good way to get in the door now with a computer science background.
@@benjaminhuffman9483
I know only too well and that's how I ended up becoming an electrical engineer.
What is the value of Science? To understand the physics of our universe and every intricate detail of it's outcome. I doubt the simulators care about us. All we have is curious scientists like him that make the difference between an educated populs or a dead one. This has now become absolutely clear to me.
That was an awesome presentation
"The water is at the deepest part of the crater"... well imagine that !!
randy farr .....now that’s Science....
A crater can have more valleys to collect water. An example: Hverfjall in Iceland
Also the deepest part could just boil the water away. That case the water would have come from precipitation and not from the water table.
So a crater has not always a simple shape - just like you saw in the first pictures, there is a plateau. Maybe even a small pond or a puddle :)
@@istvanfreifogel4413 thanks for the insightful clarification
Well doing the math by liquid volume at 5 inches a day at the measurements he gave that's 2+ semitruck tankers of water that's a good bit.
@@toooldtochange6098 quiet a bit.
The bugger is primed to explode, is sure what it sounded like to me!
Not until the magma rises a lot further. The volcano is full of cracks and fissures so no predicting where exactly the magma will go.
oh wow, i've heard of this lake before, i think it must have been last year's meeting on the same topic. i love this type of vid
Looks like some hot steamy lemonade🔥🍋🔥
Looking forward to seeing Crater Lake National Monument, Big Island, Hawaii in about 10 years.
Looking forward to purchasing a overpriced t shirt of the lake!
To all the people in this comments, he's a scientist not an oracle!
It's good that he says what they know, and what they don't know!
p.s how is the vog in the areas around Kilauea?
Very clear presentation.
The big island is changing every minute its crazy
What I want to know is if anything is growing in that lake. 70 `C, pH 4.5, and nice supply of sulfur are well within the growth conditions that thermophilic organisms are known to thrive in.
i doubt there has been enough time
Good question, my guess would be: yes. I'm guessing there was a pre-existing thermophilic sulfur-liking bacteria in the ground water deep around the volcano, and those organisms would simply migrate in with the ground water and thrive.
Doesn't take much time because there's already critters living down there. They keep finding stuff living miles below the surface, buried for millions of years. Happily doing their thing. Makes me excited to find out what's potentially living down below the surface of Mars. Seeing as they've been detecting seasonal methane and oxygen , I suspect it's pretty likely.
The above 2 posts are what I should have included the first time.
@@thisnicklldo Yep, that's how Godzilla came to be...
It is going to be interesting on how long this lake will keep rising.
That's the million $ question now isn't it. I keep watching because it is so facinating
What?
They told you how long and how much they thought already.
The pond is probably going to equalize with the water table... which is not far off looking at the graphs
@@OPrincessXJasmineO : 60 yards, a few inches everyday (let's say 2 inches). There is 36 inches in a yard. That is 18 * 60 = 540 days if activity continues unchanged, before the lake is fully grown.
I love the big island!
Watching the entire video makes me realize how much of a nerd I am. I'm OK with it.
That's lemon juice, nice
Excellent explanation. Very interesting.
That's a pretty lake. My favorite color. Would make a nice hot tub.
Enjoy getting skin grafts afterwards.
DC worries about politicians, California worries about wildfires, Hawaii worries about volcanoes
Mr.Wellington Von Duke III well the Islands did create by them so..
Kilauea! It's enthralling and, in my opinion, the USGS, and local Govt, does an amazing job of keeping the public informed with the current status of the volcano. I hope that any activity is not as disruptive as that of 2018. Merry Christmas all and be safe.
Just no. Obviously you have absolutely no idea. The USGS is actively downgraded earthquakes, and just outright not even reporting earthquakes in the Oregon and Washington areas. You think that's an amazing job? to not report potentially life saving information? Don't think for a second they are keeping the public "informed", because they are doing the absolute opposite. I am sure if you do a bit of searching you'll confirm what I am saying.
@@white94rabbit Sorry to disappoint you but I have just visited the USGS website titled "Latest Earthquakes" that shows a total of 14 of 36 occurring in the map area of the USA of magnitude 2.5 or greater. So, I totally disagree with what you are saying.
@@brianwhetton9621 Okay haha, Funny that you went to the USGS for your "search", like how brain dead can you be?The USGS are the ones I am talking about but you went straight there for your information. But ill let you believe what you want to believe, you have way to much faith in these agency's to inform the people. Hell, its not a few months ago an employee of the USGS, came out and said outright that they are activity covering up information. You seriously think you'll find any information like that going straight to the website in question? I guess you can't educate someone who has made their mind up already. You keep your faith in these agency's :) even scroll and read the comments, many people saying the exact same thing, because they probably live in these areas and have seen it first hand.
Show me the data! Talk is cheap monitoring is expensive. Show me the data!
@@AMMandrea123 Well, if you had bothered to visit the USGS website, in particular "Real Time Data", you have a choice of activity to view e.g. EQ, Water, Floods, Geomagnetism, Landslides and Volcanoes among others. But I guess that a skeptic like you will probably think it's spin !
Wonderful understandable presentation
Great place to bring my kids to visit!!
Wonder how hot the ground water is in that 1 mile well ??
The Pacific ring is awakening, the recent event in New Zealand should be a warning not to be complacent.
You know Hawaii isn't part of the ring of fire right?
@@nicotti .Yes I know, it is located approximately in the middle of the ring making it vaguely connected. Being surrounded by instability is bound to have an effect.
The point was more that the lack of notice taken in NZ cost lives and care should be taken.
Hawaii has nothing whatever to do with the ring.
@@LardGreystoke Read the comment mate, it's all about complacency. yrs people are thick
@@shanevonharten3100 Look at the Earth, mate. The Hawaii hot spot has nothing to do with the Pacific Ring. Ring = tectonic plates, hot spot = hot spot. Wham. Bam. And you know how the Hawaiians know about volcanoes? They can see them.
Wonderful up-date. Thank you for this post. I wonder whether Pelee will return to Halema'uma'u?
Will there be any sulfur leaching in to the water table mentioned or any discoloration in the water table and is it detectable now is this water part of an aquifer possibly not making drinkable besides for the rotten egg smell affiliated with the sulfur , and also how many parts per million does the sulfur have to be to make it react to magma to make it detonate when it comes in contact , just curious
Could the sulfur dioxide-laden water in the crater lake contaminate the surrounding ground water, and is this a potential problem in Hawaii?
Dale Raby
No, it’s much lower
Good question actually.. the surrounding area residents rely on rainwater not well water for their needs catchment tanks are used everywhere. Businesses truck their water in from lower altitude county water supplies which are safe for drinking.👍
I thought the thumbnail was scrambled eggs cooking in a wok?
Could the sulfur dioxide be from dry area when lava was present, with the addition of water it could mix within the ground trapped sulfur dioxide.
good work
Do they sell MAGMA hats? (I would buy one)
Make America Grow Marijuana Again!
Ahhh, I see what you did there!
This volcano stole my childhood. HOW DARR YOU!!!
@Furio in Swedish retard language, its "DARR".
cpl lenny the Swedish language is not retarded
Does the pond/lake, temperature go down as it gets larger ?
SWAM IN THAT LAKE 3 DAYS AGO ..... WAS DEFINITELY WARM AND FIZZY.
MY SKIN FEELS ..... WELL ....KINDA LOOSE...... OHHH LOOKY THERE !! ...... MY SKIN JUST SLOUGHED OFF !! GRRRREEAATTTT !!
MAGMA 2020!
Make Rock Liquid Again!
Make Magma Great Again.
You have to hold your mouth open after saying Magma....
DO NOT TRY to Swim in this!
Sulfuric acid, methane, and other gases are thoroughly all over in this water. Not to mention it is hot still, burns both from chemical and temperature possible. (Wish the researchers had stated this openly; they are sort of coerced to avoid saying anything that would damage the tourism industry.)
Gee whiz, thanks *+Noah Riding* for the warning. I mean, it looks +exactly+ the sort of place one would swim if visiting Hawaii. Who needs the beach when you can go swimming in a crater lake. And sure, accessibility is a bit of a problem but hey, it's so private.
Some drunk 19 year old will.
They probably didn't mention it because they know a person would asphyxiate on the gases before the even got down to the lake.
Will the groundwater begin to absorb the sulfur or will the two begin to separate once water flow stops and it will just go to the Crater lake
In the first diagram there is a lava tube beneath the crater with separate water systems on either side. The next diagram shows water and no lava, did the hot spot just disappear or was this a different kind of system?
U mentioned 2018? Has it already been a year since the last eruption?
Yeah, the summit collapsed on Aug 2, 2018 and eruptions in the east rift zone dropped off a couple of days later. Until then it was crazy, though, if you look at the USGS QuakeMap data for the period up until Aug 2018, there were upwards of 600-700 earthquakes registered PER DAY (all magnitude 4.0 and lower). I think they even started filtering them out as a new channel because it made the app and website nearly useless.
@@lucasthompson1650 , time flies. Thank you, Lucas.
Hold my Beer, I'm going swimming!
Nothing like a hot sulfuric acid bath
@@jerricroft937 Great for exfoliating.
@@Qwazier3 lol
Will make a nice curry
Human teriyaki curry?
So now the New Zealand one has erupted and that’s on the same plate....
Does it make this one more likely to blow
KALUS DJ The two are not related. Hawaii is on a hot spot in the middle of the Pacific plate. New Zealand is at the edge of a subducting plate. Their volcanoes occur for different reasons and one won’t affect the other.
I wonder if there is any contamination of the aquifer outside of volcano zone?
I love it when professionals who know their trade get unwarranted and extraneous feedback from the wannabes such as what's on this thread.
You mean like professionals that repeatedly note water has settled to the lowest point? Nice appeal to authority, however.
I like how people put professionals in a category of people that cannot be challenged. History shows that professionals are always right and have never come to unscientific conclusions.
@@candasmith That may be true - human nature, but there is also a level of expertise that these geologists have, and they are merely pointing to observed information, and the information here is not questionable. Any ** good ** professional would also welcome relevant questions and be happy to answer and explain them. Not worth getting into a debate of *societal hierarchy at all.
(*although I wish people would not put others of given professional levels on pedestals, and conversely, certain professionals using their degrees, etc. to rationalize putting themselves on such pretentious pedestals).
@@WebberAerialImagingThanks Mark, hence my comment and you proved my point.
@@WebberAerialImaging Its not the lowest point though. You are not very bright are you?
The core is creamy, docile and dreamy.
Michelley Bohmke 😂😅
But whats the chemistry of the pond? I have an idea, but its killing me not knowing for certain.
Is there any sign of sulpha in the water under ground?
1:47 pele face can be seen
Well spotted.
@@sluiceboxcharlie9836 thanks I don't like to fear monger but it makes me a bit worried she is normally only spotted before big eruptions
@@ExoticS_TM Just her way of cleaning up her island.
Yes I see her face
Whoa
Looks like a hot tub to me !
That'll dissolve you, sure!
@@OPrincessXJasmineO The 158 F temperature would boil you to perfection first. The meat would just fall off your bones.
I love raw nature like this. If I had the money, I would vacation to different volcanos around the world and fill tiny vials with this lake water as a souvenir... Question is would customs let me bring them home?
I would like to see where the water is in relation to the magma chamber. How is water seeping in if magma is below lake? Isn't it too hot
The magma chamber is many miles below the mountain, in the Ocean floor crust, the mountain/island is just the pipeline to the surface.
That makes it even more amazing IMO.
The island gets lots of water from rain in any kind of mountain. While the water is under the soil and rock its seeping downwards covered. This means that even while there's heat the water can't evaporate so its still constant in being there, and while moving downhill can seep out into the center of the cone.
At least this is my understanding. I am not an expert.
The idea that water can't evaporate while covered by rock, mud, and dirt should hold even if people have other ideas. And the water could flow downwards. This is reasonable. Ice pack snow flows in normal mountains do this, often creating what people call artesian wells in other places of the west. (By mentioning artesian wells I'm referring to normal non-volcanic Rocky Mountain snow pack ground flow melt flows, not those that are volcanic and dangerous for human consumption.)
@@MichaelClark-uw7ex
The roof of the magma chamber is very shallow only about one kilometre below the summit.
This isnt being talked about enough .
It is by USGS scientists who advise the local government regarding safety, which is why it’s rarely in the headlines - well, that and not many Aussie tourists.
Wow! Some of these comments make me never want to vacation in Hawaii. It sounds like you all hate us mainlanders. BTW, I’m a little old lady from a small town in Pennsylvania, and you are all welcome here anytime!
I've been to Hawaii. It's very expensive. And it "rains" practically every day, at least it did then when I went. But it was more like a misty rain, you could stay out by the pool during the rain. How do they know none of this water collecting is from rainfall? They've even had snow for one of the first time in anyones memory.
@@recoveringsoul755 They said that it wasn't runoff because the depth was increasing at too steady of a rate.
@@recoveringsoul755 The peak of the volcano tends to be above the cloud level.
@captaincaveman1 from all my trips I see the locals trashing the place more than anyone else they dump trash everywhere. they have that your not from here west Virginia holler vibe too
RuthieSeptember
See there's the problem, you don't live in a tourist town. Live a few years in one and you'll realize how annoying tourists can be. I lived in Branson, MO for close to a decade, that was enough.
Looks just like my bathwater!
eeeeeuww.
Yeh , I'm incontinent too
I believe the last question in the video , the question the woman was asking indirectly was: Is the volcano contaminating the groundwater a mile away ? The answer is or will be Hell yes ! So upgrade all the water filtration systems RIGHT NOW. Even if there is not eruption or explosion there will be increased contaminants in the groundwater.
Thank you for the fascinating presentation. I am entirely enthralled by geology and volcanology. I am equally disgusted by the ignorance of most of the comments. I know you guys cannot really speak out in the context of your jobs, but I can. These are some dumb mofos, and it is an insult to the evolution of our species if they breed.
obviously you have not been privy to all the corruption that these FRAUDS and I do mean FRAUDS have perpetrated
NO ONE forced you to come here lol 😂😂 and you can leave at ANYTIME and we'd support you 110%. Lol then when you go back to wherever you're from, you can tell all your friends to not come to Hawaii. Instead go to the Bahamas, or Puerto Rico or like literally ANYWHERE but here. We'll be BETTER OFF with y'all gone 🤙🤙👏👏
Kalani Low-Totally agree brother...shit I’ll pay for his ticket😂
@@SovereignHawaii Sure ...we'll leave....but we take all the military bases with us,along with our money as well...we'll bring all our scientist back to the mainland...oh yeah you'll need a government to get stuff from the US ,and if you visit us don't forget your passport....oh and if more eruptions happen ,which we know will happen)...you have to pay us for anything we do for you......also be advised the as soon as we leave ..the chinese will move in...whether you want them or not................be very careful for what you ask for.
@@morgangrey4020 okay first of all, who's to say we wouldn't get reparations for the prolonged occupation? And two isn't that kinda the point? Of course Rome wasn't built in a day, so that would mean the US would slowly leave. Not just one day they're here and one day they're gone. That's unrealistic lol. As for China encroaching into Hawaii territory then one, would that be your problem to deal with? Two wouldn't that "justify" your claims that the US is "nicer" than other nations? And three wouldn't that give y'all fair game to nuke the islands into oblivion (cause the Chinese were so bad and weren't the natives from Hawai'i anyway)? I think all of your points are INVALID but sure. Let's go with that
Thank You ..... ✌
Sad you can't see Kilauea glowing from Volcano House anymore..
Wifey and I were there in 2010. Loved Hawaii. We've 'done' all the (major) islands, except Moloki. We 'prefer' Maui.
What's moloki?
Ready to blow? I'll leave my Hawaii trip to after it blows... if Hawaii is still there.
Good less people on the islands
There should be more, that's how the islands got there in the first place. Have you considered New Zealand? 😉
@jediphilosopher Oh dear! That devious Hawaiian Volcano! "Waiting until I just give up waiting"... and then it will blow!! I'll wear a disguise - it'll never know it's me - hahahahaha
it won't. It's different type of volcano. You want to avoid the volcano's with silica rich magma. The hawian chain has some small threats (like falling into an old lava tube, steam vent, fissure, etc) but no real crazy stuff. The magma feeding the islands chain has more iron and stuff and less silica since it is not coming through a continental plate, but instead through the relatively thin oceanic crust.
It will still be there, in fact, there's a high chance there will be more Hawaii than there was before 😁
The most destructive thing in the world is a volcano. Pray no new eruption takes place. Aloha 🌊
@Alex Bon lol...sry 🐶
We just visited over Christmas through New Years. Much of Volcano National Park is closed.
Given that the pond is at the bottom of a inverted cone a steady 15cm increase in water level per day actually means that while the growth is steady flow rate into the pond is increasing rapidly.
So you have a lake...
And withdrawal pains from all the attention in 2018.
Even more surprising is that no one has tried to open a jet ski rental on it.
@John Smith alas, only those farting extensively are allowed to make use of the potentially limited facilities...
@John Smith sulphur dioxoide is not healthy, but rotten egg smell is H2S (hydrogen sulphide)
Reinier NN If enough oxygen is being displaced at the bottom of the crater, that could get deadly pretty quickly.
😂👏
@@reiniernn9071 you'll also get that rotten egg smell from silver sulphide.
Did the visitor center fall into the collapse of the caldera ?
No. It's still far away, but the regular earthquakes that accompanied the successive crater collapses in 2018 damaged it.
So the usgs message is they are not sure of anything could be bad could be nothing so hold your breath and count until usgs figures it out like when it blows up or when it dosnt ? Maybe if and when
This volcano will now have a rest for another 15 years. Next time it blows, the place will not have a peak. It will blow sideways and take off a big area.
Translation...
"We're all gonna die."
See what happens when you pee in the pool.
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅👍
Get cheeks clapped by Pele.
It becomes yellow ;)
Well...I always wondered how they made lemonade.
Can the sulphuric acid that the pond is absorbing backtrack into the groundwater?
There's undoubtedly a gradient. I would guess that there's too much water currently for the effect to spread very far.
Is there any danger of contamination to the local water sources as the lake fills ?
That lake is thousands of feet up on a mountain, not down in inhabited areas. Much of Hawaii's big island is uninhabited lava beds...take a look on Google maps, you'd be surprised how much of the island is just stark, empty, solidified lava beds.
Water flows downhill pretty easily. So , Yes , as time goes by the groundwater will be contaminated
@@austinl.2703 NO, because the water is flowing INTO the volcano, not out.
anyone got a link to the webcam?
Guy G hvo.wr.usgs.gov/cams/panorama.php?cam=K2cam
thermal - volcanoes.usgs.gov/observatories/hvo/webcam.html?webcam=F1cam
you know how the internet works, right?
@@monkeyfunk8371 yep, 10,000 totally unrelated links when you search for "Kilauea volcano webcam" isn't that how it is supposed to work?
@@Guytron95 its not the internets fault if you cant narrow a search.
Wow, there are some seriously ignorant comments here, and they cover a wide range of beliefs and opinions. When did giving an update on a crater pond by geologists become so controversial?
As someone living a few miles from this area, maybe I can clear up some misconceptions about the region.
First off, people here are like people most anywhere. Most work to support families, there are groups of retirees, some homeless. Most people are pretty nice, there are some that aren't and have turned to racism to justify their outlook on life. This area of Hawaii, is one of the poorer ones, and people here have their fair share of the problems associated with that SEC. White people are a minority, so they catch more than their fair share of low key abuse and mistrust, but not as much as some other groups, such as Micronesians. The Hawaiian Sovereignty protagonists are very vocal and everyone but themselves are tired of hearing about it, but most people are pretty tolerant of the ranting and raving.
Without the volcanic activity, there wouldn't be any islands. The vast majority of the island is unaffected by the volcanic activity but you see the evidence of it everywhere. Even though I only live a few miles away and could theoretically experience a lava flow, it's not something I worry about. Nor do most people. Obviously, when dealing with nature on this magnitude, it is impossible to predict with 100% accuracy what will happen next. All the islands have experienced this and more. From lava, to massive landslides, earthquakes and tsunamis . At some point that will happen here, and if people are where it happens, there will be loss of life. There are higher than normal levels of various hydrogen sulfides, sulfur dioxides etc in the air. Sometimes its worst than others and is called Vog. Parts of the area experience very high rainfall. Sometimes you go from a 160" of rain to a desert in less than a few miles. There is a substantial water table contained within the land mass and supported by the more dense seawater. There appears to be separate water table(s) at different elevations due to varying porosity of stone trapping water. Most of the water quality is pretty decent, but areas near the magma experience various natural pollutants. Unless you live near the coast or in one of the dry areas, most people use catchment systems filled with rainwater. It is then filtered and typically UV treated.
You know you aren't educating any of the nutballs right? But I appreciate your willingness to try.
@@nicotti sigh....I know....at this point is mostly just venting......sorry for the bad pun:)
Thank you for the report. Some of the info is new to me.
@@tejarex right on cheers
J Denmark, thank you! I was just in the Big Island. I lived in Honaunau for years and my heart is still there. Volcano park was splendid as all the diverse terrains of the Island. It’s good to keep an eye on the activity of Kilauea, it’s their job and we’re watching this video for a reason. I have friends in Pahoa who didn’t evacuate and there they stay for many years. They don’t live in paranoia. I love that Island and my kids were born there so there is a deep connection for us that others may not get. Mahalo for your comments.
If it ever erupted again would this cause it to be highly explosive?
It might. That's what this man pointed out. Ash deposits from hundreds / thousands of years ago show highly explosive eruptions have occurred in the past.
The hot magma that is currently refilling the magma chamber, could turn the water in the water table to steam. Steam will expand rapidly, with explosive power. So basically he was saying, the next eruption could be quite dangerous with explosions. 🥴
Wow. It's filling the lowest part of the crater. Why do you suppose it does that?
Gravity
Water + Magma = Explosion...........think Krakatoa.......not good.
Interesting. I've been reading that during a GSM earthquakes and volcanism increase.
Very interesting
the good 'ol "football field" measurement
I thought he kept saying “like” but he meant lake?? Umm... just me??
But a geothermal operation can drill into the flank of an active volcano_god for the purpose of running turbines to produce electricity?
The whole groundwater-meets-volcano thing is a bit more complex than a 6th grade geology textbook's cop-out of a diagram.
The 2018 'eruption' changed the whole superstructure of the magma chamber. -I'm guessing
If I were Hawaiian I would DEMAND a public inquiry into the nature of the relationship between PGV and the USGS.
@Steven since when are more opinions bulshit more opinions is how we figure out what's going on.
Is this the first time in recorded history that there is a lake at the summit?
Yes.
PH of well water VS the crater?
Caaaaaaaannnnooooooonnball.