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Magnitude-4.7 shakes Big Island in Hawaii

Fox News - Jan 23, 2012
The quake struck beneath the south flank of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park at 4:36 pm (6:36 pm PST) at a depth of five miles, according to a report from the US Geological Survey. The epicenter was about 25 miles south of Hilo and 220 ...

Magnitude-4.7 shakes Big Island in Hawaii, aftershocks follow; no damage or ...

Washington Post - Jan 23, 2012
The quake struck beneath the south flank of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park at 4:36 pm (6:36 pm PST) at a depth of five miles, according to a report from the US Geological Survey. The epicenter was about 25 miles south of Hilo and 220 ...

VIDEO: Rare open house for Hawaiian Volcano Observatory 100th

Big Island Video News - Jan 24, 2012
By David Corrigan and Stephanie Salazar HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii: Sunday's series of minor earthquakes happened in roughly the same region where the day before, some of the United State's Geological Survey's top scientists were gathered ...

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Adventure Guide: Hawaii the Big Island

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Eruption! Viewing lava at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Written directed and produced by Donald B. MacGowan; Narrated by Frank Burgess; Original Musical Score by Donald B. MacGowan Can you believe this? It's absolutely outstanding and amazing! You can actually walk right up to flowing lava here; see a volcano erupt before your eyes and the molten rock pour into the sea. This has to be one of the four or five most exciting, amazing, wonderful, mystical experiences on earth...you must not miss this! Mauna Loa is active but not currently erupting. The summit area is slowly inflating, filling with magma and the flanks are subject to frequent minor earthquakes, but no obvious activity is apparent to the visitor. Kilauea, the most active volcano on Earth, started its current eruptive phase in 1983, the longest eruption in history. Since then it has ejected almost 3 billion cubic meters of lava. Flowing from various vents in the rift, most notably Pu'u O'o, in streams and tubes at over 1000 degrees Celsius, much of the lava makes its way into the sea in fiery, steamy explosions or the incredible incongruity of glowing hot lava pouring directly into the sea with little more apparent than a mere bubbling of the water. Although surface flows and breakouts are frequent and common, there is no guarantee that over any given trip to the Big Island they will be visible or easily accessible to the casual visitor. Since the flow of lava over the moonscape plains and into the roiling sea can be seen nowhere else on earth, it is certainly the ...

 

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Kilauea Iki Trail, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Perhaps the finest short day hike in the park, a four-mile, 2-3 hour trip down into, across and back out of Kilauea Iki Crater gives one an intimate feel for volcanoes, Hawaiian-Style. Crossing the crater floor on this surface provides one of the most interesting hikes in the Park. Looking up from the bottom of the crater, one can see the distinctive ring around the crater marking the high point of the lava lake during the last eruption. The four mile loop-hike descends from the rim in two places and crosses the crater floor in about three hours hiking at a nominal pace. Along one side, thick fern and ohia forest skirts along the rim and on the other, lush tropical rainforest crowds to the very brink of the crater; bleak volcanic desert lines the crater walls and covers the floor. The start and finish of the hike are along well marked, wide trails following the rim with handrails and stairs in some spots as you begin to descend into the crater. The remainder is an easily followed, well marked trail with stone ahu (cairns) over the crater floor. Recent bore-hole measurements indicate that roiling molten lava is lying beneath the skin of the caldera only 230 feet beneath your hiking boots. Keep your eyes open for Peles Hair and Peles Tears (fine, thread-like and bead-like deposits of volcanic glass), gaseous vents and other marvels of the living lava mountain. This hike requires you to take plenty of water, rain gear, suncream, a map and compass, to wear sturdy hiking shoes ...

 

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Lava Lake Crust Break - Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

A re-circulating lava lake in the West Pit Pond of the Pu'u'O'o vent on the east flank of the Kilauea Volcano.

 

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Thurston Lava Tube, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Written and produced by Donald B. MacGowan; videography by Frank Burgess and Donald MacGowan; Narration by Frank Burgess; Original Music by Donnie MacGowan Nahuku, the Thurston Lava Tube, gives the visitor an opportunity for a close-at-hand inspection of the inner plumbing of a volcano. It also makes for an interesting and unique way to escape the noonday heat or afternoon shower briefly. Lava tubes form when the outer crust of a flowing river of lava begins to cool and crust over, but the lava continues to flow beneath it; when the flow has completely drained away, the lava tube is left behind. Thurston lava tube is a remarkably large, well-preserved and accessible example of a lava tube-type cave. An easy, 0.3 mile trail (about a 15 minute hike) winds through lush fern forest alive with singing bird and buzzing insects, down into a collapse crater entering the lava tube and slipping about 300 feet through the well-lighted, floored cave, popping up through a skylight in the tube and returning to the parking lot. A very easy walk and certainly a "must see" for any visitor to the park. When Lorrin Thurston, founder of the Honolulu Advertiser, found the cave in 1913, the roof reportedly was covered with stalactites—it is said that rapacious tourists removed every one in the intervening years. For more information about visiting Hawaii in general or touring the Big Island in particular, go to tourguidehawaii.com and tourguidehawaii.blogspot.com.

 

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Halemaumau Crater, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Written and Produced by Donald B MacGowan Narrated by Frank Burgess Still and Video Photography by Donnie MacGowan and Frank Burgess Breathtaking, awe-inspiring, sacred. Clearly overcome with awe and wonder, when he visited Kilauea a century and a half ago, Mark Twain remarked aptly: "...here was room for the imagination to work!" A spectacular eruption has been underway in Halema'uma'u Crater since March 19, 2008. Because of this, Crater Rim Drive is closed at Jagger Museum and at the junction with Chain of Crater Road, so the Halema'uma'u Overlook is inaccessible. Great viewing of the eruption can be had from Jagger Museum; views of the ash cloud at night, lit up with the glow of molten rock from below the surface of Halema'uma'u, are particularly exciting. Please go here to learn more about this eruption. The Hawai'ians revered the area around Halema'uma'u Crater as the home of the volcano Goddess, Madame Pele, who journeyed from Tahiti to Ni'ihau and Kau'ai before settling down at Halema'uma'u. For generations Hawai'ian Kahuna came here to divine the future, hold rituals, make sacrifices and appease the goddess with offerings. Commoners among the native Hawai'ians were not allowed within sight of the sacred grounds. Continuing into modern times on several ceremonial days each year (in times of eruptive quiescence), modern Hawai'ians gather on the crater floor to perform hula dances and other rituals to appease the goddess Pele.