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Kilauea volcano errupts, lava more than 1k feet high [video]
- asix66 1y agoYT link is live video. USGS info: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea Timeline: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/volcano-updates/volcano-messages https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/volcano-updates/volca...
- 0xbadcafebee 1y agoMoney shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24GcMK020Ao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24GcMK020Ao Three weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db9qvUWYgcQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db9qvUWYgcQ
- beefnugs 1y ago[flagged]
- metadat 1y agoI happened to be on island and got to see it from 5-7am, it was truly a sight to behold, unlike anything else I've seen. Got some cool pictures but of course they really can't do it justice. Even a mile away we felt some heat! Astounding amount of energy literally spewing from Earths core
- seniortaco 1y agoPlume over 20k ft?? Uhh what the heck is a plume anyway?
- goodcanadian 1y agoAsh and gas: the "smoke"
- ganeshkrishnan 1y agoBig Island is an extremely interesting place. Its just few kilometers wide but it has around 8 climate zones ranging from snow, desert, volcano, tropical, beaches, rainforest what not. You can drive less than an hour and go from desert to snow and snow to tropical. There is one public bus that goes around and once I was the only passenger and the driver stopped the bus near the ocean to show the travelling whales/dolphins.
- jebarker 1y agoAlso the tallest mountain on Earth!
- aoki 1y agoFor those downvoting: As measured from the planetary surface(=sea floor in this case), as opposed to sea level
- tele_ski 1y agoI've always thought that it seems like a silly way to measure it.. Everest also goes to the sea floor, technically.
- jebarker 1y agoThen you’d be calling a whole continent a single mountain and it wouldn’t be a continuous slope in one direction. I agree though that it’s a bit silly to measure Mauna Kea to the ocean floor.
- gottorf 1y agoIt feels like it makes a bit more sense with Mauna Kea, since Big Island is just five shield volcanoes in a trenchcoat, and the point where the land meets the ocean is basically just the foothills of the mountains. You cannot say that of Everest, which is over 400 miles from the nearest ocean.
- 1970-01-01 1y agoLive link is useless link. Nothing to see except steam.
- jasonthorsness 1y agoCan’t predict the volcano, but I highly recommend a helicopter trip over Kilauea if you have a chance to go. Even if it is not currently erupting, from the air you can see the cooled lava flow paths and it’s clear the massive volume that occasionally flows out.
- colechristensen 1y agoKilauea has been erupting every week or two since Christmas Eve and fountaining every week or two for two months now.
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- andsoitis 1y agoMultiple sources indicate that helicopters have a higher fatal accident rate compared to cars, with some calculations showing helicopters to be 10 to 85 times more dangerous when comparing based on hours flown.
- avidphantasm 1y agoI don’t care if the probability of failure is lower in a helicopter than automobile. The failure modes for helicopters are all worse than that of an automobile. Chances of dying if something goes wrong is much higher.
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- Eduard 1y agotimestamp for "lava more than 1k feet high" please.
- jmward01 1y agoThis has been happening for a while now on a fairly regular schedule. Geology hub covered a previous eruptive episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkMz4b5Ogd8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkMz4b5Ogd8
- dluan 1y agoThe VOG lately on Oahu has been really bad, desperately hoping we keep tradewinds around. A few weeks ago we had Kona winds and it was nauseating.
- dboreham 1y agoA rule that has emerged over the years is that if there's some volcano erupting spectacularly, if I book a flight and go fly there, it will immediately stop. So if anyone would like the lava to cease, just send me a plane ticket...
- okanat 1y agoTom Scott is that you?
- snvzz 1y ago[flagged]