June 14, 2018 Pu’u Ai La’au
Suggestion: Perhaps Fissure Eight of the Leilani Eruption should be named Pu’u Ai La’au (Hill of the Forest Eater). Light variable winds over East Hawaii today brought horrible vog over most of the flow field this morning… even Hilo suffered the ill effects. Fissure 8 continues to pump phenomenal amounts of lava into the system, feeding enormous rivers that transport the molten rock to the Pacific Ocean in Kapoho. Eight is really the only active vent of Kilauea’s Leilani Estates eruption, which enter the seventh week today. The other two dozen fissures are smoking, steaming and glowing, but not erupting… while Fissure 8, almost dead center in the middle of the beleaguered subdivision, continues to send 6-9 million cubic yards of lava a day flowing toward the Pacific Ocean. Pele is now creating new land off the Eastern coast of the Big Island.
Mahalo to Paradise Helicopters and Bruce Omori at Extreme Exposure