by annthenmac@hawaii.rr.com | May 16, 2018 | Lava Overflight
May 16, 2018 Vog, Vog, and More Vog The worst vog we’ve ever experienced blanketed all of East Hawaii today, making our overflight very difficult. We did manage a couple glimpses of fissure 17, as it continues to push hot liquid rock toward the Pacific Ocean....
by annthenmac@hawaii.rr.com | May 15, 2018 | Lava Overflight
Lani Puna Flow Active The spattering/exploding event at fissure 17 continues… pushing the hot liquid rock another two-tenths of a mile toward the Pacific Ocean overnight. She is now nearly half way to the water. And two new fissures, numbers 19 and 20, have...
by annthenmac@hawaii.rr.com | May 14, 2018 | Lava Overflight
Pele Heads to the Ocean Pu’u ‘O’o’s lava has reached the flow field… her lava is hotter and more fluid, creating more fountaining and a one mile long a’a flow overnight. Pele is heading to the Pacific Ocean… only about a mile...
by annthenmac@hawaii.rr.com | May 13, 2018 | Lava Overflight
Seventeenth Fissure Eruption The seventeenth fissure of the current eruption opened up around 3am Sunday, May 13, 2018 about several hundred yards from the sixteenth fissure. This fissure is characterized by huge explosions, throwing lava hundreds of feet in the air...
by annthenmac@hawaii.rr.com | May 12, 2018 | Lava Overflight
Sixteenth Fissure Eruption The sixteenth fissure of the current eruption opened up shortly before our lava overflight this morning. It is along the same line as the first fifteen fissures, but has skipped over the Lani Puna Gardens subdivision, just below the Puna...
