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...
by annthenmac@hawaii.rr.com | May 9, 2018 | Lava Overflight
May 9, 2018 Leilani Eruption Aerials Volcanic activity had slowed this morning in the Leilani Estates subdivision on the Big Island of Hawaii. But this afternoon a little after three, we received reports that the lava had entered the geothermal property (unconfirmed),...
by annthenmac@hawaii.rr.com | May 8, 2018 | Lava Overflight
May 8, 2018 Thirteenth Leilani Eruption The thirteenth Leilani Eruption occurred today near the intersection of Leilani Ave and Kahukai. Noxious gas release… huge cracks in the road… and violent lava spattering, as has been typical of the past several...
by annthenmac@hawaii.rr.com | May 6, 2018 | Lava Overflight
May 6, 2018 HUGE Fissure Eruption The Leilani Estates Subdivision on the East side of the Big Island (Puna) is literally being ripped apart. This morning’s fissure eruption was by far the largest we’ve seen so far… starting just above Luana St, she...
by annthenmac@hawaii.rr.com | May 4, 2018 | Lava Overflight
May 4, 2018 Third Eruption in Leilani This is a killer video! And was the last ground level shots I was able to get before I had to evacuate. Consequently, I have had the time or the machinery to be able to post to FB lately. The second outbreak occurred early the...
by annthenmac@hawaii.rr.com | May 3, 2018 | Lava Overflight
May 3, 2018 Pele Erupts in Leilani After all the lava drained out of the Pu’u ‘O’o Vent (the main vent of the 35 year long current eruption) last Monday, the contents moved down the East rift zone, causing hundreds of earthquakes as far away as...
by annthenmac@hawaii.rr.com | May 2, 2018 | Lava Overflight
May 2, 2018 Pu’u ‘O’o Vent Empty! The complete collapse of the active vent on Kilauea’s east rift zone last Monday sent an amazing ash plume skyward, and blanketed a three mile long swath of the current eruption in red dust… 61G looks like Mars! Yesterday,...
by annthenmac@hawaii.rr.com | May 1, 2018 | Lava Overflight
May 1, 2018 Vent Collapses!!! A quarter-mile long line of steam fissures from the Pu’u ‘O’o Vent to the west leads to a HUGE brownish red plume, emanating from the vent itself, the result of the floor of the vent collapsing yesterday. The event sent...
