# For volcano watchers - maybe you'll get lucky! {Kilauea may be erupting} **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 5, 2023, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665 "2023-09-05T20:52:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/241 "2025-05-11T21:06:58Z")
Episode 21 is threatening to start right now. For lack of a better word, the south vent is “blurping” again. If it is like last time, it will blurp, overflow, withdraw, lather-rinse-repeat, without fountaining for quite a while. But who knows what will happen this time. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/242 "2025-05-11T22:55:17Z")
[The front vent started a small fountain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG5zz9Sjw3E) and eventually overflowed about 20-30 minutes ago. It’s hard to make out the subtle flow in that camera view during the day but quite apparent if you use the arrow keys to skip forward and back. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/243 "2025-05-11T23:11:42Z")
v1cam is showing a great view of some pretty significant fountaining now. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/244 "2025-05-11T23:29:47Z")
Nice, they zoomed in since I made my last post. ETA The V2 cam shows it’s now 3 times as high as when I posted. ETA2 no, they didn’t zoom in, it’s just that the fountain is so much bigger that was my initial assumption. Wow. ETA3: Too bad it’s only 720p. I bet it would look glorious in 4k on a large monitor. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/245 "2025-05-11T23:45:16Z")
It is absolutely incredible what is happening right now. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/246 "2025-05-12T00:08:43Z")
Subsiding now, less than half its height at its recent peak. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/247 "2025-05-12T00:29:12Z")
I just tuned in, but it’s 2x larger than anything I’ve seen in prior eruptions. If that’s itself a reduction from what @Ponderoid saw an hour ago, then they must have seen something amazing. I wonder if it’s resurging, or fading? ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/248 "2025-05-12T00:30:20Z")
You can always scroll back up to 12 hours and line up things to see what was happening at the time of the post 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/249 "2025-05-12T00:31:10Z")
D’oh! I just did that and now is ~70% the height and ~50% the volume of an hour ago. That was some amazing stuff back then! A more detailed poke at the last 2 hours shows it grew abruptly to huge, then shrank to about half the max, then ebbed and flowed a few times on ~5-10 minute cycles, then now is slowly fading. But now (2035 Eastern) is still going good by comparison to any of the last couple of months’ eruptions. Once nightfall hits I bet the crater surface will be glowing prettily from edge to edge. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/250 "2025-05-12T02:15:50Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > Anyhow, I still struggle with it. I guess I should just say “over to” the volcano. What kind of Hawai’ian are you? Shouldn’t you say mauka? ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/251 "2025-05-12T02:25:44Z")
No, mauka would take me inland toward the center of the island. We use mauka and makai all the time but it doesn’t apply here. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/252 "2025-05-12T02:27:04Z")
Meanwhile, the lava fountain looks huge again, high and wide. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/253 "2025-05-12T02:29:52Z")
Just left the park. View was frustrating because it was so misty you could barely see. It was astonishingly high, though. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/254 "2025-05-12T02:49:35Z")
I finally had a chance to tune in. (It’s easier during the work week - I have the cams on a tab in chrome). Wow - just wow. Hopefully it’ll keep going in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/255 "2025-05-12T03:41:13Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > No, mauka would take me inland toward the center of the island. Ah, TIL. I always thought mauka just meant towards some unspecified mountain, perhaps the nearest one. My Hawai’ian dictionary defines “uka” as “inland, upland, towards the mountain”, which isn’t very specific, but I’m sure your usage is correct. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/256 "2025-05-12T04:55:29Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Once nightfall hits I bet the crater surface will be glowing prettily from edge to edge. Not as high now but a lot wider. This is from the V2 cam, currently zoomed further out. [![](https://i.gyazo.com/c1593c5615d6b8b79e8b772025ac7aa8.jpg) ](https://i.gyazo.com/c1593c5615d6b8b79e8b772025ac7aa8.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/257 "2025-05-12T11:00:24Z")
And around 8:30pm Hawaii time it stopped after a couple hours of slowing down. By midnight Hawaii time the glow across the crater floor had mostly subsided to nothing. But wow did we all have a show while it lasted! ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/258 "2025-05-12T20:16:33Z")
[Highlight reel of the recent activity.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjxwJhtie-U) ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/259 "2025-05-13T23:21:41Z")
Want to see the volcano up close? Move to Hawaii, the Big Island? Reasonable cost housing? Do I (actually Caldwell Banker) have a deal for you! > **[The Most Bizarre Tiny House Is This Dilapidated Greyhound Bus Perched On A...](https://www.theautopian.com/the-cheapest-house-you-can-buy-in-hawaii-might-be-this-greyhound-bus-parked-on-a-volcano/)** > > Want a cheap way to move to Hawaii? You can buy one of these two absurdly cheap dilapidated Greyhound buses parked on a volcano next to lava ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/260 "2025-05-13T23:46:51Z")
Yeah, that’s definitely representative of a certain slice of life here. People who live in Puna are affectionately referred to as “Punatics.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665.md?page=14)