I rarely comment on RU-vid, but do want you to know that I appreciate your volcanic awareness, knowledge, and generosity of both in making/sharing videos. 🙏
Definitely cool 🔥job! I remember watching the footage of 2018's eruption on Doing Hawaii's and Apau Hawaii's channels. It was fun when they'd catch up with friendly USGS folks.
Kilauea's different eruption types are fascinating! I guess this would be the "not-tourist" eruption type, unless you can do a flyby, drone or plane. But it's amazing geology! Thanks for the update and details! 💚🌋
I'm a little cranky. The last eruption happened the day after I left the Big Island and my parents fly there and she greeted them like a friend the minute they get there. What did I ever do to you, Pele???
I'd love to build my house (in which I shall live all by myself) on the rim of a crater... Say Taal. No one will disturb me and death will come quickly when the volcano wakes up. Added bonus of being in a position to permanently monitor her.
This is so cool. We actually hiked part of the Napau trail around this time last year, but stopped around the edge of the Makaopuhi crater and had lunch there before turning back. We were just two miles from this crater! Makaopuhi crater was releasing some steam at that time. We were the only ones on that trail, as it's fairly remote and you have to walk over bumpy lava flows to get there. Thanks for the information GH!
i wonder why it picked the crater??? what are the odds. is the ground thinner due to it well being a crater??? also how are these craters formed? napau. and other pit craters? please do a video on napau formation and other pit craters. thanks
They are pit craters. (Or at least the majority of them are; I can't swear none of them was created by a different mechanism.) To see what that is, google "nps pit crater" for the National Park Service page on them.
Thank you for another fascinating update on the majesty and power of volcanism that is shaping our planet. Your videos inspire me to add to the destinations I wish to visit in the future. When I see a giant lava flow or or eruption I guess I can't just help myself but give a big "yee-haw, look at her go" and set back and enjoy the show. I'm a Texan 🤠yee-haw is just natural and I think appropriate.🤣😎
Yeah the higher elevations in this area are a lot wetter than they look. You can see how there's been about zero fire spread from the fissures up in the forest. Lower elevations might be different, assuming the ongoing large eruption gets that far. I seem to remember lower chain of craters road being a lot more open and grassy (dryer) than up here. But regardless there's no towns, no residences and probably no people at risk from fire.
Last year we had 61 volcanoes going off simultaneously as we came into this time. The previous year was about half that maybe about 40, in fact every year since 2017 the volcanoes have got exponentially bigger. Why would we expect nothing less than exponentially bigger than 61 volcanoes simultaneously erupting by mid October?
In fact, the number of volcanoes per week identified as active by GeologyHub over the last few years has varied between about 45 and the low 50s, with no detectable trend either up or down.
Tim - off-topic for this video, but my Google homepage has just led me to a new paper in Nature Communications about lithospheric dripping. Could we have a video about this with your thoughts please?
That is his voice. He just did a series of live reports from Iceland. I suspect he uses very distinct vocalizations to make his videos easier to understand for non-English speaking people using translation software.
He is autistic and that explains his rather idiosyncratic voice and way of expressing himself at times. Actually adds to the rather special ambience of the site for some of us. And what matters is the quality of the information - you got that part right. 🙂
