When Mount Kilauea first erupted I hoped it would be a flash in the pan eruption, then it sustained. Currently, there is a small volcanic island forming off Hawai’i. I believe it is vents 7and 8 of Mount Kilauea still sending out significant amounts of lava some through canals under cooled lava to the sea. The volcano’s cone and surrounding land mass are collapsing daily with seismic movement of greater than 5 on th Richter scale.
Today the USGS has picked up a swarm of earthquakes around Yakima, Washington in the range of 2.4 Richter. The first week of the eruption of Mount Kilauea everything in the Cascade Range was quite. The report on Friday stated all was normal.
At time of the eruption on Hawaii the Fueho Mountain in Guatemala erupted. It was a deadly eruption and killed over 100 people with many missing. NASA ran a heat scan on June 24th of the mountain and surrounding land in Guatemala and some cooling has occurred where the pyrocladtic flows occurred, but, there is still significant heat. There doesn’t seem to be anymore activity, although the lingering heat is curious.
Only a few hours ago the oldest Yellowstone geyser as erupted in an enormous plumb of at least 100 feet or more into the air and nearly reaching the viewing stand full of people.
I think the swarm of earthquakes inWashington State and the unusual eruptions of guysers in Yellowstone, it is time to better understand the caldera and/or any relationship with the Cascades on the West Coast.
NASA had been developing a measure to stabilize Yellowstone. I think the time has come to do more than submit proposals and wait for finding. I don’t believe in coincidence.
