Volcanos

[Lord Avalon]

Earthquake in Russia. At least on our shores (don't remember exactly where, can look later) highest wave was about 4' (1.2m).

[Buster's Uncle]

Thanks.

[Lord Avalon]

"Strong glow and rare spattering were visible in the north vent overnight but there have been no additional vent overflows. This morning [Tuesday], lava is 15–30 feet (5–10 meters) below the top of the vent. Low-level seismic tremor and degassing at the summit continues. Summit tiltmeter data has fluctuated over the past several days and has recorded virtually no net inflation since Friday evening, August 1.  Models suggest that episode 30 sustained lava fountaining may start between now and Thursday if the slow inflation recorded over the past 2–3 days continues." excerpt of update

Re: Tsunami - Crescent City CA actually suffered USD 1M in damages.

[Buster's Uncle]

This is what I get for not following the news more.

Just saw a white bird fly by on v3, a first...

[Buster's Uncle]

v3 is having extended shakes as I type...

[Lord Avalon]

Thar she blows! Don't know when it started, but lava is coming out of a couple places, not fountaining high, but spreading wide out of the bigger vent.

[Edit] Sometimes I forget you can go back. At 0054 local, looking at V1, the glow is getting brighter, but you can't tell if any lava has come out. 0055 there's lava percolating. 0056 there's lava running downhill. 0112 lava percolating at south vent*. 0118 lava flows out past the nearside of that rocky protrusion at the north vent.

*This is a new vent per report.

[Lord Avalon]

Excerpt of new report Aug 6 0206:

"Episode 30 vigorous fountaining of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began at approximately 1:20 a.m. HST on august 6 and is currently producing broad fountains150-300 feet (45-90 meters) high from the north vent.  Lava flows from the north vent have covered about 20% of the floor of Halemaʻumaʻu crater.  There is a line of small fountains that formed south of the old south vent area that are producing lower volume flows. This appears to be a new vent for this eruption and seems to be associated with a cluster of small earthquakes just south of Halemaʻumaʻu."

"Episode 30 was preceded by spatter fountains and vigorous overflows that began at approximately 12:56 a.m. and continued to increase in intensity until about 1:20 a.m., when sustained, energetic fountaining began."

[Buster's Uncle]

 

[Buster's Uncle]

I 'spose none of this has been making it out of the caldera?

[Lord Avalon]

Though the report said fountaining got up to 300 feet, which is hard to tell from the video without frame of reference, I'd say no above the rim. In previous episodes they had to zoom out much more to see that high fountaining. Should be dawn soon.

Unless there's more pressure from below to cause the high fountaining, I wonder if this episode will be pretty short.

The new vent petered out about 0440 local.

[Buster's Uncle]

Definitely dawn on v3 now.

[Lord Avalon]

A lot of smoke obscuring V3's view. Check out the others.

[Buster's Uncle]

Impressive -and daylight- on both I have easy access to...

[Lord Avalon]

My impression is that the fountaining out of the north vent is higher, since V1 is zoomed out. Not above the rim, but there seems to be a high volume of lava, looking at how fast it's flowing downhill and in multiple streams.

[Buster's Uncle]

Definitely gotten fountaining higher in the course of the day...