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Map of Kilauea’s new lava flow headed SE (map: HVO)
HVO reports no significant changes in the eruption.
The new lava flow headed to the SE from Pu’u O’o continues to advance fast. During the past week, it made progress of 1200 meters, i.e. on average almost 200 m per day.
Its front is currently approx. 6 km from the coast and it is headed currently towards the Royal Gardens area, where it will meet steeper ground on the Pulama pali which likely will speed up its advance before slowing down again once in the vast coastal plain. If the current advance continues, it will take about 10 days to reach the top of pali, HVO wrote. Whether and when new lava will eventually reach the ocean is impossible to predict: the road to there is still long. However, chances of this happening within the next few months are quite high and increasing.
At the summit, the lava lake inside Halemaʻumaʻu’s inner pit crater continues to circulate and spatter, and its surface is currently approx. 30 m below the crater floor. Seismic activity across the volcano has been low recently. The long-term deformation trend shows continued inflation beneath the summit and uppermost Southwest Rift Zone.
Sulfur dioxide emissions from the summit vent ranged between 3,500 to 5,400 metric tons/day during the past week.
At Pu’u O’o, the small lava pond in the West Pit crater continues to be active.
Courtesy of volcanodiscovery.com
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