Notes

Wiki Links

Coords (Long, Lat; Alt)

  • bbox: -157.0|-154.0, +20.5|+18.5
  • Kīlauea: -155.286762, +19.421097; 1.247 km
  • Pu‘u Ō‘ō: -155.105, +19.386389; 0.7 km
  • Fissure 8: -154.909640, +19.461053; 0 m
  • Mauna Loa: -155.602778, +19.479444; 4.169 km
  • Mauna Kea: -155.468066, +19.820664; 4.207 km
  • Lō‘ihi: -155.27, +18.92; 3 km (975 m deep)

Miscellaneous Links

Fissure 8

  • May 5: opens
  • May 7: all fissures inactive
  • May 23: briefly reactivates (one day only?)
  • May 26: reactivates; stays active
  • Late May: fissure 8 grows
  • June 3: fissure 8 is only active fissure
  • Aug 4: shuts down? Summit quiet?

@ 100 m3 / sec (±50)…

  • 8,640,000 m3 / day
  • 518,400,000 m3 in 60 days (~0.52 km3!)
  • 1 km3 in 120 days (4 months)

Fissure 8 Cam — RIP

Links

Offerings to Pele…


There once was a mountain that plumed.
The goddess within it, she fumed.
With watchers around,
I'll stay in the ground!
And all o' their waiting is doomed!

Watchers and Lurkers,
All focused on Kīlauea.
Pele bides her time!
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