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Lava sea entry at Hawaii (image: Lava Ocean Tours)
A second lobe of the 61G lava flow in the coastal flat has crossed the Emergency Access road at a location about 500 m (1,640 ft) west of the main flow and entered the ocean during the night 8-9 Aug.
Thus, there are now two ocean entries at Kamokuna; the first one which had been active since 26 July and gradually widened to now almost 300 m (820 ft) and the new one west of it, making the total area of the ocean entry close to half a mile long, with gaps in between.
A light-colored “scar” about 20 m (66 ft) across from this rockfall is visible to the right of the spattering area on the lake surface. Rocks in the vent wall can become unstable when the level of the lava lake drops, as has been going on for the last several days. (image: HVO)
Summit lava lake explosion:
At the summit caldera, the lava lake in Halema’uma’u crater remains active and was 40 m (131 ft) below the crater rim as of yesterday. To illustrate that it is an extremely hazardous (and forbidden) location to go to, a larger rockfall from its inner walls occurred late Saturday night and triggered an explosion that sent a shower of molten lava and rock debris of various sizes onto a broad area, 80 m (260 ft) long and 50 m (165 ft) wide, around the former Halema’uma’u overlook. Some instruments of HVO’s monitoring equipment installed there were destroyed in the explosion when hit by glowing lava bombs.
Remains of a power supply unit for one of HVO’s gravity instruments located about 24 m (80 ft) from the crater rim, destroyed during Saturday’s explosion of the lava lake (HVO)
Courtesy of volcanodiscovery.com
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