For the most part, that area is 400 to 500 feet deep right off the edge of the rocks.

https://www.facebook.com/bigis...ideos/527163987685230/

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I was told that when Mag-ma hits sea water that the explosive reaction fills the air with sulfuric acid steam filled with microscopic shards of glass???

That is some wicked shit right there...

 

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Hydrochloric acid.  

A fresh helicopter video from the Hawaii National Guard.  The major lava flow is now large and the lava is much hotter and moving faster than it was earlier on.  

A very good video and photo presentation from Civil Defense is at Big Island Video News.  

ApauHawaiiTours (Scott Wiggers) is doing frequent on-the-ground videos.  

Inland, a fresh and particularly wild video from Scott.  

Scott talks to geologists.  No, the island isn't going to split and the seaward slice fall into the ocean.  

Scott talks to geologists.  No, the island isn't going to split and the seaward slice fall into the ocean.  

Eddie would surf it...

Clark Little's Instagram, checkitout

It's been a terrible night and day for loss of houses.  Scott posted 11 videos; this one was especially impressive.

This has been active for 35 years. It could stop tonight or, continue for another 35.

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May 30 map from USGS.  Unofficially, more than 244 homes destroyed so far.  

the VOG is ridiculously thick in Kona, I can't even see the shoreline anymore...

Looking at the USGS site, the frequency and location of earthquakes is increasing and moving closer to the Caldera.  Classically, this means a major shift at the Caldera.  Could be an impressive event that changes the original Caldera.  Doesn't bode well for people near there.

May soon have an event bigger than the 1924 thingy. Could, to a point, be "scary".

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Oipaul, I need suggestions for early August reservations.

The caldera area is "deflating," which means it's gradually collapsing as magma moves out from under it and spews across Leilani and Pohoiki.  USGS geologists are using 1924 as the closest precedent for the current events.  So far the village of Volcano isn't evacuated but the road that skirts the caldera is open only for local residents during limited hours, basically to get themselves and their stuff out while things are reasonably quiet.  

The situation downstream from the two current lava flows is looking bad.  This is a fresh 20 sec. clip from the Leilani Community Center.  Big lava fountain behind the trees.   Youtube.

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I don't know what to tell you, the National Park is closed indefinitely. The Government has asked vacation rentals in the affected area be halted. Air quality is highly suspect down that way and it looks like volcanic activity is not slowing down in the near future. Are you looking to stay near the volcano in August? If not it should be business as usual for rentals for the rest of the island.

The road network on Kilauea (the entire volcano, not just the crater/National Park areas) is disrupted.  Forests tend to be off limits due to sudden Ohia lehua death disease (it's an extremely abundant Hawaiian tree), and of course Hilo is busy with relief activities and finding places for those who are homeless or evacuated.  

Rest of the island is looking fine, though Kona really does seem to have local vog problem.  

A fresh video gave me a better fix on the Chain of Craters road work near a former lava ocean entry.  For strictly limited use, and the last of the lava flows that closed the road were last year.  

Still plenty to see and do.  The plane ticket was cheap.

My lifelong buddy lives on the sea cliff about 4.5 miles west of the current lava entry into the ocean. Earthquakes? Yes. VOG? Just a touch so far, most days barely a whiff. Otherwise, he says that where he's at if it were not for the road closures and general cluster fook, he would not know anything was going on. Yes, he is lucky, if he lived 5 miles to the east he'd be, as they say, screwed blue. Oh, and yes, he says that the newer, fresher, lava is quite "runny" and in some areas with decent down slope, it is progressing about as fast as a normal person would walk.

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Hawaii County Civil Defense Flickr videos of lava fountain from May 30 give a good idea of the scale of what's happening.