The booms are not capitalized because they are not big booms. Still, they warrant mentioning.

Thursday morning there was a hybrid explosion/earthquake that turned the plume at the Halema’uma’u vent brown. More significantly, there was, as the USGS put it, a ’strong hybrid explosion/earthquake’ at 1:13 AM Friday. USGS assumes a change of vent size from this one, but details have not been released. Fog obscured the vent a lot last night. But when I look at the webcam pics of the vent, it looks about the same size but possibly a little larger. The plume is pretty active today.

Small earthquakes, too small to be located, are up to 100 per day. There were seven larger ones, although not large enough to be felt here in Kona. Two of those were under the Kilauea Caldera.

Emissions remain high. We have vog. The rain is helping to keep it down, here in Kona.