First published at 15:05 UTC on November 28th, 2022.
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https://www.usgs.gov/media/webcams/ml...
https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mauna-...
Thermal satellite view! WOW ! https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms...
Nov 27 into 28, 2022
This is the first eruption of Mauna Loa since 1984 . Currently the lava is filling the caldera surface.
Links above go directly to the USGS webcams for the location, current view is from the NW rim looking SE across the caldera.
Clearly the caldera has split open, with a large fissure of lava and fountains going on for about a MILE across the center of the top of the volcano. This is a quote "big deal" indeed.
There is no way for me to know which way the lava is going to flow currently (except to know it will follow a path of least resistance, and gravity downwards whichever way is easiest for it to flow.
Our only hope is that the lava stays inside the caldera and does not flow out.. and just fills the crater with a new layer of lava. That's the hope, but it doesn't look like hope is on the menu right now in regards to this eruption stopping suddenly.
The whole center of the caldera has ripped open currently.
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Update 808am Central US time 11/28/2022: ALERT... pictures and video of lava coming out the top or the side of Mauna Loa just posted about 15 min ago on twitter from people nearby the eruption.
Pictures: https://twitter.com/BIGJIN16/status/1...
Video:
https://twitter.com/BIGJIN16/status/1...
So much for that whole "it won't be flowing out of the caldera" thing people were saying.
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