Lately there have been a between one and three hybrid explosion/earthquake per day that turns the plume at the Halema’uma’u vent brown. Also each day, about a dozen earthquakes large enough to be felt have originated in and around the Kilauea Caldera. Smaller ones have fluctuated between 40 and 100 per day. We have had […]

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 […]

We have been pretty quiet the last few days, both the volcano and me. That does not mean that we have not been active. But it does mean we have not been exceedingly interesting. However, now it’s time to let you know what is going on.
The vent at Halema’uma’u rises white each day over the […]

There will be a Vog Seminar held Thursday, Sept. 25 at the Convention Center, 1PM to 4PM.
On Oahu.
Not the Big island of Hawaii.
Sponsored by the State of Hawaii, in conjunction with the Hawai’i SOS Safety, Opportunity, Sustainability conference, the Hawaii State Department of Labor and Industrial Relations is offering a FREE! seminar. They […]

We’ve been using a lot of electrons talking about the volcano this month, so I thought I should throw in a line or two about coffee, since that is what BehindTheCoffee.com was originally all about.
Yet the activity at Kilauea is intimately wedded to what is happening with coffee on the Big Island of Hawaii. There […]

It is a magnificent morning in Kailua Kona, absolutely beautiful. After yesterday, which was perhaps the second heaviest vog day ever, it is such a welcome relief. The sky is, in fact, actually blue right above me. Friends north of Kailua that I’ve spoken with on the phone say that up by the airport, the […]

I’ve put off writing this post, because it seems like sour grapes. But that’s what we’ve been handed, and I guess it should be talked about. You can skip this one, if you want. I wouldn’t mind.
The hot shot team from Center for Disease Control, dispatched to Hawaii in late July by the Environmental Protection […]

This is very cool! It’s a movie showing the lava bubbling in the Halema’uma’u vent. Click here to watch it.
I see that I need to restate what I wrote in the previous post about gas pistoning, because it was incomplete. I plead vog, as usual, and for my punishment, I get more vog. Here is […]

We have lava in the Halema’uma’u vent, says the USGS this morning!
They report witnessing a ’sloshing’ lake of glowing, molten rock 330 feet below the rim of the vent. It is over 150 feet in diameter, which is a pretty good sized lava pond.
Well, actually, the molten material in the pond, which may reach hundreds […]

This is not an official notice of a ‘Volcano Watch’. Well, actually, there is an official Volcano Alert Level: WATCH posted on the USGS website. But they’ve been saying that for months. This is a “really… keep your eye on the volcano, because bigger things are starting to happen” sort of watch suggestion… thing.
Anyway, take […]