# Odd or interesting little items you keep track of via the 'net

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**Created:** [September 26, 2026, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-or-interesting-little-items-you-keep-track-of-via-the-net/1033402 "2026-09-26T17:06:00Z")\
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**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 29, 2026, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-or-interesting-little-items-you-keep-track-of-via-the-net/1033402/17 "2026-09-29T00:44:47Z")

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Here’s a whole 700-post thread dedicated to monitoring an odd or interesting thing:

> [@For volcano watchers - maybe you'll get lucky! {Kilauea may be erupting}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-volcano-watchers-maybe-youll-get-lucky-kilauea-may-be-erupting/989665):
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> 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…

The US Geological Survey (USGS) maintains 3 cameras V1, V2, & V3, that watch the volcano continuously and stream to YouTube with a 12-hour lookback available. For the last couple of years you could see monster lava fountains 500-1000 feet high for 6, 8, even 10 hours at a time roughly every 2 weeks.

Starting a couple weeks ago things are different with some new fissures releasing pressure. Nobody knows what’s next. We’ve had lots of little spews that last 20 minutes. Several per day most days. Still fun to watch when it’s busy: **[USGS - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@usgs)**.

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