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StoneLegionYT OP t1_iu5o5tx wrote

Reply to comment by palikir in Hawaii's Big Island residents get warning as huge volcano rumbles by StoneLegionYT

It has been like 38 years now? 1984. And the one before that was 1950? That was 34 years.. Yeah I think we are sadly due.

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tahlyn t1_iu5qtdr wrote

I mean there have been active lava flows from the volcano every few years on the south east side. That one neighborhood was destroyed not that long ago...Leilani estates or something near there?

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SonoraBee t1_iu5sev9 wrote

Same island but different volcano. Kilauea has remained pretty regularly active but it has a different source chamber than Mauna Loa. It also shares the island with Mauna Kea, Hualālai, and the extinct Kohala volcano.

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FifteenthPen t1_iu5srpc wrote

That's Kilauea, a different volcano southeast of Mauna Loa. Mauna Loa hasn't erupted since the 1984 eruption.

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SewSewBlue t1_iu5v11b wrote

Different volcano. The big island has 2 active volcanos, and a 3th below water, rising up. One dormant, where the observatories are.

The Leilani Estates rupture was part of the smaller volcano, Kilauea. The new quakes are in the biggest volcano, Mauna Loa. This volcano will erupt bigger and faster than the little one. More lava too.

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ajmartin527 t1_iu5yywp wrote

Largest volcano and mountain in the world!

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FifteenthPen t1_iuaebm2 wrote

The neighboring dormant volcano, Mauna Kea, is also the tallest mountain in the world measured from its base!

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ajmartin527 t1_iuecmse wrote

Oh shoot I meant Mauna Kea. She’s the big girl.

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FifteenthPen t1_iuefpf7 wrote

You were right before. Mauna Kea is taller, but Mauna Loa is larger in mass and volume.

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Hokulewa t1_iu8z8ln wrote

It's 3st.

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SewSewBlue t1_iu90jhk wrote

Thank you for that reminder that reading is tough for me! Gee, I forgot that I'm dyslexic and shouldn't comment because the grammar Nazis might be offended by merely by my presence!

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Hokulewa t1_iu961vg wrote

A Nazi would have corrected you.

Thank you for reminding me that humor is tough and some people don't have a sense of it, and I shouldn't risk offending those people with jokes they won't get.

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Sanity_in_Moderation t1_iuah6ny wrote

I appreciated the information that I didn't know. I was unaware of a 3rd volcano below the water.

Way below the water apparently. A kilometer.

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17times2 t1_iu78ley wrote

There are constantly eruptions, it's more a matter of "is this one going to be big enough to be a concern." Where I used to live, you could see the glow of the volcano in the distance every night.

They had an eruption in like 2017-2018, where the lava got riiiight to the edge of one of the towns. A couple houses got buried there, but I don't remember how much damage it did elsewhere. The brand new recycling center in Pahoa had the lava stop literally on the other side of a chain link fence.

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nWo1997 t1_iu6l9yw wrote

Wait, is this not one of those volcanoes that's been erupting for years? I know Hawaiian volcanoes' eruptions aren't very explosive. More like a hole where magma slowly becomes lava than a Krakatoa situation.

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