This is sort of old news, but, interesting. The park is opening in Hawaii again. At the time this video was taken by the Aquarium, there had been a seismic event in Hawaii. I have to wonder if the seismic activity of Hawaii is causing this mass migration to California.
September 9, 2018
On Saturday, Puʻu ʻŌʻō crater experienced a series of small collapses (click here) which produced episodes of visible brown plume throughout the day.
The plumes were most prominent at about 10:30 a.m. HST, the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reports (the activity was also reported across social media). The collapses generated “small tilt offsets and seismic energy recorded by nearby geophysical instruments,” the scientists say, although the events “had no discernible effect on other parts of the rift, though we will continue to monitor for longer-term changes.”
Puʻu ʻŌʻō is located on the middle East Rift Zone of Kīlauea Volcano between the summit and the lower East Rift Zone where recent fissure eruptions destroyed over 700 homes. The Puʻu ʻŌʻō vent has been quiet ever since a huge collapse occurred at the end of April and lava evacuated downrift, preceding the May 3 eruption in Leilani Estates....
