The YouTube feed looks to me about the same as it was during the eruption prior to the most recent one. For the latest one, they adjusted the view to get a closer look at the vents erupting then.
I don’t know precisely where the current area of interest is located, but if I’m not mistaken, the camera looks eastward, then veers to look to the south. There is SOME view of the land to the south of the crater at that point, so we might see a glow if it starts to erupt. I’m only guessing, though. As someone pointed out earlier in this thread, if there is an interesting view (ie, an eruption) not currently covered by a camera, they’ll most likely adjust.
Definitely acting like an eruption could start at any time. For those who like to watch the summit crater live, here is the YouTube feed again. I’m not sure the camera is aimed to get the best view of a new eruption, based on where they say the inflation is happening, but that’s just a guess on my part.
Geologists are usually careful to note that it’s hard to predict with a high degree of certainty what will happen when, but they are paying close attention and part of Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park has been closed off for now. From our local paper today:
The area just south of Kilauea volcano’s summit continues to show signs of unrest, and inflation remains at about its highest level in more than five years and has nearly returned to the level seen just before the last eruption on Sept. 10, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported this morning.
Elevated seismicity beneath Kilauea’s summit region, which began Oct. 4, increased again around 8 p.m. Sunday night after about 18 hours of moderate to low earthquake counts.
Earthquake and ground deformation rates beneath the southern part of Kīlauea’s summit caldera and extending to the southwest have decreased dramatically over the past several days, suggesting the intrusive event that began last week is coming to an end.
Summit Observations: The major intrusive event that has been ongoing beneath the area extending from the southern part of Kīlauea caldera southwest to the Koaʻe fault zone appears to have slowed significantly or stopped. A dramatic drop in earthquakes, from a peak of over 250 per day last week, to only 23 recorded in the past 24 hours.
Still, there seems to be a bit of activity brewing in Halema’uma’u crater now. Fingers crossed that it amounts to something, as that’s the best spot for eruptions right now in terms of. both community safety and live/digital viewing.
I got excited when i went to the volcano webcam and saw this :-
But on closer inspection, it appears that those new “lava pools” are some sort
of illusion. They disappear when the camera pans across. And they appear to be
floating…
I think it’s probably aliens. I’d link to the thread about that, but I don’t think the volcano thread would be improved by some single-issue posters following the backlink to here. So consider this your virtual linky-link.
I logged on this morning to check earthquake activity around Kilauea (It has been slowing down significantly for the last couple of days.), and noticed that between midnight and four in the morning (CDT) there are a bunch of little quakes (11 or 12) just under Mauna Loa’s crater. They were mostly within three miles of the surface. Most of the activity was between two and three (CDT).
Pele is teasing us again! Quakes are way up south of the Halema’uma;u crater as I write (54 in the last 24 hours, compared to usually 4-15, or maybe 20, for a lot of recent days).
They’ve closed Chain of Craters Road. Please please please Pele, give us a Thanksgiving Day spectacle!
Here 90 minutes later enough water has left the camera enclosure that we can see sorta. The amount of steam coming out of vents, and the number of active vents is lots more than a few days ago when I last looked.
I don’t know how common that is, but it’s probably a sign that things are getting more interesting not that far below the crater surface. Whether the trend keeps getting more interesting or settles back down is the big question.
Things are calming down again, though the number of quakes is still elevated from where it has been for a while. But less than at the latest peak.
On the steaminess - usually I check the thermal camera to see if the crater is heating up, but that camera has been down for quite some time. I’m sure they’ll fix it at some point.
