So what could these people perched at the Hawaii County lava viewing area be looking so intently at if the ocean entry plume is to their left?A large and rapidly spreading breakout of pahoehoe has erupted from the lava tube system on the coastal flats in the past 48-hours. This was happening only a few hundred yards west the viewing area access road last night. Just after dark this breakout the visitors were fixated on looked like this at 7:15 PM:
As darkness set in the lava viewers had two exciting scenes to look at; the surface flow breakouts and burning forest to the west and an ocean entry to the south
I did not make it back down there this morning to document the overnight progress of this new surface flow but I will get some updates later today and add them to this posting, or have them on here tomorrow.
This new breakout is advancing easterly and poses a threat to the nearby Kalapana Gardens homes should it continue on its present course.
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Interesting to see if the little temblor we had today has any affect on the flow... Thanks for the killer coverage, Leigh.
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