More Earthquakes in Kilauea's Upper East Rift Zone as Volcano Refills with Magma: Geologist Analysis
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- čas přidán 25. 05. 2024
- Geology professor Shawn Willsey discusses the recent flurry of earthquakes at Hawaii's Kilauea volcano as magma continues to refill the summit reservoir.
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Your coverage of current geological events is amazing and appreciated.
Thank you Prof Willsey 🙏
Thanks for the update! Never a dull moment, between Iceland and Hawaii. :) Your data-driven, no-hype analysis is always appreciated.
I love these updates you give. I always learn something new. Thank you Shawn.
Always happy to get updates!!
Thanks for the update. I have been watching your Iceland updates; and now see you covering the Big Island where I live. Thanks. Always informative.
Always good to here from you👍🏻
Thanks for the update. Just drove by the Lava Beds National Monument off Hwy 139 just south of Klamath Falls OR. Amazing uplift formations along the roadside.
Yes, I love that area too.
Sending aloha from the island of Oahu!
Thanks Shawn! Really looking forward to tomorrow with you and Myron.
Thanks for this update Shawn. So different to the situation in Iceland: really interesting.
Thank you for the update!
I traveled on Amtrak over the weekend. Because of some prolonged delays I was actually able to see some of Mount Shasta area! ( Northbound). We passed through a road cut which revealed two distinct lava flows; one was very black and I assumed was obsidian and a few feet above was a reddish flow. The reddish flow appeared as solid as the presumed obsidian flow beneath it. And I thought, “What would Shawn Willsey have to say about this?” I was so excited to see the two layers of lava flow I forgot to take a photo of it! But later on I did get pics of some other old lava flows. The mountain was shrouded in clouds, but I did get a shot of Black Butte. 😅 Thank you for all your tutorials here on CZcams!
Thank you, Shawn.
Thanks so much for updates Shawn, much appreciated ❤
Thank you, Shaun. I have learnt so much since following your podcasts.
Thank you for this update. 😊
Thank you for sharing your video. Very informative as always.😊 Have a great day!
Thank you @shawnwillsey for this update! We never get bored with volcanoes :)
Dear Professor Willsey, I love your volcano update videos. I also wanted to thank you for your excellent Hawaiian 'ōlelo of Halema'uma'u in your newest video of today 06 May, 2024! You no longer sound like a bad haole, but much more like a local! Mahalo nui! (This is not the video where you have made a tremendous correction), but after watching it, I could not find it. However, you did a great job in today, May 6th's video! Thank you!
I love your Hawai'i and Ísland volcano updates. You do such a good job on most Icelandic pronounciation, I just wanted you to do as well on your Hawai'ian too! Again, big māhālo! Thanks for keeping us, geology nerds up to date, and educated! Takk fyrir and mahalo nui! Alōha!
Thank you for the update. It’s interesting to contrast Hawaii and Iceland volcanic activity.
Thanks for all of your hard work man! Great distraction from whats going on at Ruang atm
You are a fantastic teacher! Thank you for all of the videos, I watch every one.
Thank you for the very interesting Update from the north of Germany❤
Thanks, Shawn.
Thank you Professor
Scary in Hawaii. Thanks Shawn
Thanks Shawn for the update. Good to hear about Iceland but always good to hear about volcanos closer to home. Appreciate all you do for us. Thank you.
Hello Shawn..hope all's well..
Thank you. Fascinating.
You on top of it Shawn.I kindly thank you sir.😘
There is now violent eruption at Ruang also at Kilauea and at Iceland too 😢
Great video, thanks!
The red line on the USGS HVO graph is the cumulative seismic moment, which includes the earthquake energy release, not only the number of earthquakes.
Thanks shawn
Aloha from Makaha....I'll have to see the USGS updates for Kilauea area...
Thank you
Thanks for the update Shawn. I'm glad Hawaii is taking precautions better than Iceland atm.
The center of crater has risen and the cracks surrounding it has occurred too.
I also like to follow this area in addition to Iceland.
USGS updates were posted for April 29th
Hello and greetings from Kanab Utah ... Have you spent much time studying the Campi Flegrei supervolcano in Naples Italy? It seems to be more active recently. Thank you, Shawn, for all your efforts. Respectfully, Utah Mike.
Hello, Shawn. Ruang in Indonesia violently erupted once again!
Would be nice for live video other than what's on FB.
@@HeatherMerrell hard to get data from that area.
@@shawnwillsey yeah
Uncertainty in both Iceland and Hawaii. Lots to learn here !
Could you do an assessment of Naples Campi Flegrei area? Looks like uplift last year and an ongoing increase in earthquake activity.
Enjoyed this video too btw, thanks.
Shawn - Another great update - nice and clear and concise. Thanks!👍
One thing that I think that your Iceland regulars might have benefited from (which you may well have covered in previous Hawai'i videos - if so, I apologize) is a brief explanation of the tiltmeters. Your Iceland crew is more used to the GPS plots from SENG etc, which shows the actual 3D movement of the sensor (often with fairly significant error bars), as opposed to simply showing the slope of the ground (with virtually no "error" - at least, none plotted 🙂)
Good point.
Aloha from fissure 8 in Leilani. I see more gasses and I feel the ground is warm to hot in some places too . I experienced the 2018 flow and that was incredible . I think our next lava flow may be on the South Kona or Kau area as well as up in park .!
Hope not.
Aloha from Volcano!
Aloha
In the images you have shown I could not see the decrease in deeper earthquakes?
Curious, did Pu’u’O’o ever refill? It drained before Kilauea did originally
Nice wee video. I do wonder, the volcano activity around the globe seems heightened?! Or is is just perception thanks to CZcams algorithms. Even the German and Italian volcanoes are being watched more intensely...
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Hey Shawn Willsey, i understand that there are theroy about that whole southern flank could shear off, how much warning would there be for such an event? And would it be more likely to happen during a flank eruption as opposed to a summit eruption??🤔??
Can you do a video on Mt Ruang?
Question- if/when there is an eruption at Kilauea, what would it look like? Would a Kilauea eruption look more like fissures opening like in Iceland or more explosive with a pyroclastic event?
I had heard something to the effect that if the crater’s lava lake drains too low this could be catastrophic.
I’ll be visiting Kilauea in August and will be monitoring the situation as it develops.
Thanks 😊
could some of the lava lake in Kilauea, be draining down into the East rift zone?....I imagine there is a substantial amount of liquid lava under the Kilauea cauldron that hasn't solidified yet....I'm remembering the 2018 eruption that drained the lava lake down into the residential area....
Professor, what is your take on volcanic eruption watch in Italy?
really interesting! I have been considering for the last few months about getting involved with USGS at Volcanoes Natl Park - do you have any insight or advice about any opportunities that may be available (i have a BS in Astrophysics, looking for geology work experience)?
I hope this is not going to be another eruption on the East Rift zone. In the past, such a before the last time after the caldera lake disappeared, followed by more activity along the east rift zone, the USGS and the HVO really down played the activity and what it might mean to those living between Kilauea and Hilo. When suddenly vents opened up along the east rift zone, no one was as prepared as they should be because while reporting the activity and what it could mean they downplayed the risk. This may have been understandable on one hand as the draining of the caldera lava lake resulting in the magma heading into either rift zone was not expected as it nevet happened like that.
This may have been, I hope, a learning experience in that we can't sit back and simply rely on what a volcano has done, or not done before, to determine if alerts should be raised or potential evacuations planned.
I understand that the USGS has taken big political hits when upping alert levels or suggesting evacuation planning or stronger warns in communities because when something does not happen, but a community has taken a financial hit as tourists stay away or other reason, and even just because communities complain that tje USGS warnings had sacred them and it later turned out not to be necessary, the USGS has become reluctant to pull the trigger, when actually they should have.
Even back when MT St Helen's erupted, most people were out if the way more due to location, time of year and the eruption held off longer than it potential should gave. As it was, there were people in the way of the lahars in the lowlands that should have been evacuated days before.
When the east rift zone last erupted, 2018, many farms and their livestock were quickly cut off, simply because of the down play of what many geologist had come to think of as a pet volcano and were just too sure they knew exactly how she would behave.
Many questioned why more had not been done in advance, such as following how Iceland had done in the past, of having a decent idea of where a rift would open and if it did what could be at risk and prepare protections. There was no way to save every residential property along the east rift zonr, but had burms been employed they could have saved more by simply redirecting lava around some areas and through areas that were empty and out to the coast, as well as protecting the thermal energy plant schools and community complexes and so on.
When they say an earthquake happened at 1.2km depth, is that from surface at that location, or is that based on sea level? Kilauea ground level is about 1200m altitude, so if earthquake is 1.2km below ground, it basically means sea level, but if 1.2km below sea level, than means over 2000m below ground.
I miss the actual lake at bottom of Halema'uma'u, it would have made for a great spa with hot baths and all. Shame it all vanished in a flash when the water was evicted by Pele, the landlord 🙂
Could please clarify something that has been bothering me. It seems there is a south-western rift zone and the east rift zone, the newer housing are to the north, right? Why is that? It seems to me that is the most likely place to have an eruption in the future. At least from what little I know about Hawaii geography over time, the extinct volcanos follow a nice line. Who might be dense enough to even consider building there?
Guess I'm too dumb to understand it is prime building land!
You are welcome at Two Pinneaples Ohana when you want dear proffessor!❤
Is there any news or update on Ruang? 2 major eruptions there in less than 2 weeks is just something we do not see often.
Hawaiians love Vegas.
Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and major flooding, what is happening to the Earth?
Same old same old. ✌🏻
Manmade?
Do you know Philip Ong, HVERI?
Not personally.
700 homes,
do those need flood insurance 🤔