# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/21 "2023-09-11T10:45:37Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > that is very cool. It’s HOT!! (Oh Christ, did I just do a Kardashian? Please kill me) ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/22 "2023-09-11T10:56:35Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > did I just do a Kardashian “That’s hot” is a Hiltonism, not a Kardashianism. _But I think you knew that._ ---
**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:** [September 11, 2023, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/23 "2023-09-11T11:02:02Z")
It was a great show during the afternoon yesterday. One of the commenters then mentioned that if you look closely almost all the ground in the field of view between the camera and the fountains is moving slowly to the left and towards us. It’s coming!!! Right now at dawn on the US east coast it’s about 1am in Hawaii. So … > When the night has come > And the land is dark > And the moon is the only light we’ll see. [SCRAAATTCCH!!] Not so fast, Ben. That’s no moonlight. The fountains are still obviously fountaining but the striking thing is most of the foreground and some of the background surface of the crater is dark, but all shot through with glowing orange cracks. And one large glowing orange river sliding slowly leftwards for the middle-distant main fountain. This part of the crater floor is now all new, all “wet”, and all semi-molten hot. Such fun. Until somebody gets hurt. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/24 "2023-09-11T11:02:06Z")
Close enough. Please still kill me. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2023, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/25 "2023-09-12T01:35:15Z")
Now midafternoon on Mon Hawaii time the fountains are larger and the entire visible surface of the crater is liquid and moving more quickly. Implying the current lava is less inherently viscous, or is hotter, or both than the earlier stuff. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2023, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/26 "2023-09-12T05:10:05Z")
Seems to be settling down, but [still pretty cool at 7pm Hawai’i time September 11](https://imgur.com/a/gjdTByb). ---
**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:** [September 12, 2023, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/27 "2023-09-12T11:29:50Z")
I don’t know abut settling down; your pic seems t be abut the most extensive fountaining I’ve seen. Now at 1:30am Tue Hawaii time it’s still got mre and larger large fountains than 24 hours ago. And the mobility of the lava is still increasing. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/28 "2023-09-12T09:43:01Z")
The eruption started yesterday. So far I haven’t seen any reports of damage outside the caldera. It seems to remain contained within the crater. The live cam footage is amazing, especially during the nighttime. You can click back in the stream to see earlier times and watch it start. Live Cam link: > **[Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii (Halemaʻumaʻu crater)](https://www.youtube.com/usgs/live)** > > Live view of the eruption in Halemaʻumaʻu, from the northwest rim of the caldera, looking east \[V1cam\] . Eruption onset video: https://www.usgs.gov/media/vid... ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/29 "2023-09-12T10:29:11Z")
Cool. My wife and I hiked that caldera about a year ago. ---
**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:** [September 12, 2023, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/30 "2023-09-12T10:37:27Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > You can click back in the stream to see earlier times and watch it start. Unfortunately that’s not true anymore; that link only lets you go back 12 hours at most. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/31 "2023-09-12T11:38:24Z")
That’s too bad. It’s still interesting to see it as the light changes though. It’s amazing to me that it stays at such an even simmer for such a long time. Not that I’m complaining! :looks at Pele: ---
**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:** [September 12, 2023, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/32 "2023-09-12T11:39:30Z")
Here’s the existing Kilauea eruption thread: > [@For volcano watchers - maybe you'll get lucky! {Kilauea may be erupting}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky/989665): > > Kīlauea Volcano is showing signs of unrest as I write this - the [daily update](https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/volcano-updates) reads, on September 5, 2023: The seismic and tilt data indicate that Kīlauea’s summit is becoming increasingly pressurized. Similar episodes of earthquake and ground deformation activity occurred in November 2020 and August 2021, prior to eruptions in December 2020 and September 2021. The unrest is currently confined within Kīlauea’s summit region and—if it continues—could escalate to an eruption in the coming days, w… ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/33 "2023-09-12T11:41:53Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > :looks at Pele: What’s all that about Pele ?! There are lots of mentions in the comments of that youtube link. Is the footballer ? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/34 "2023-09-12T11:42:36Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Here’s the existing Kilauea eruption thread: I swear I searched for that before I started one! 😖 ---
**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:** [September 12, 2023, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/35 "2023-09-12T11:45:47Z")
It’s fun that most of us are a long way around the earth from Hawaii so we can watch it at night during our day and watch it in the daytime during our night. Two very different scenes. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/36 "2023-09-12T11:45:58Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > What’s all that about Pele ?! There are lots of mentions in the comments of that > youtube link. Is the footballer ? Hawaiian Goddess. When she gets mad, the volcanoes erupt. She is the spirit of volcanoes and righteousness. > **[Pele (deity)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pele_(deity))** > > In Hawaiian religion, Pele (pronounced \[ˈpɛlɛ\]) is the goddess of volcanoes and fire and the creator of the Hawaiian Islands. Often referred to as "Madame Pele" or "Tūtū Pele" as a sign of respect, she is a well-known deity within Hawaiian mythology and is notable for her contemporary presence and cultural influence as an enduring figure from ancient Hawaii. Epithets of the goddess include Pele-honua-mea ("Pele of the sacred land") and Ka wahine ʻai honua ("The earth-eating woman"). > In different... ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/37 "2023-09-12T11:51:33Z")
Ah ! Now it makes sense ! It’s a shame she has to get mad before she puts on such a spectacular show ! ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/38 "2023-09-12T13:01:11Z")
It would at least be polite to say what she’s mad about so we can stop all the speculation and conspiracy theories! ---
**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:** [September 12, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/39 "2023-09-12T13:51:42Z")
You don’t cross Madam Pele, but when she gets angry, she puts on a spectacular show. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2023, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665/40 "2023-09-13T22:27:40Z")
Now, noon-ish Hawaii time on the 13th it seems the show is winding down. For now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665.md?page=3)