[Rockhounds] Hawaii eruptions and earthquakes

[Dora Smith]

Kitty, you're the person who's been posting the alarmist stuff from pbs 
and NPR?   It undercut your credibility.

 From what I can see on TV news, most native Hawaiians are taking Madame 
Pele pretty much in stride.   Should the volcano start spewing 
refrigerator sized boulders, NOT "blow the top off" of a large flat 
volcano with many craters and fissures, most people will be watching the 
show.

You'd do better to stick to local media and government sources.

I am questioning how someone who is there, could possibly not know that 
the volcano is large and flat, with numerous craters and fissures, and 
doesn't HAVE a top to blow off.  You need to get your nose out of pbs 
and npr day in and day out, and go outside!

If you WANT to be alarmist, can you please spare us!

Dora


On 5/15/2018 12:00 AM, Kitty wrote:
> Today is clear and sunny where we are, and we can see the top of Mauna 
> Kea above, and turn around in the other direction and see the horizon 
> over Hilo Bay.  The only inkling that there is a volcanic eruption 25 
> miles away from our house is that we occasionally feel a small 
> earthquake, not big enough to make noise or rattle the dishes in the 
> cupboard (or rocks in glass cabinets).
>
> Typically in the past the winds take the vog west and then north and 
> thus Honolulu often has more vog than Hilo does.  That appears to be 
> the case so far, because we have not had any vog, ash or fumes at our 
> house or in Hilo city proper when we go there to do errands.
>
> The native Hawaiians take the belief in Madam Pele very seriously.  
> They accept what destruction lava and earthquakes do, and make 
> offerings to please her all year round, and especially when the 
> volcano is active.  We've seen personally and in the news media some 
> offerings to Pele, which range from plants, flowers, fruit or coconuts 
> -- some of them wrapped in Ti Leaves -- to bottles of wine or gin, 
> candy, or a thermos of hot coffee!
>
> As of today there are 19 fissures with lava spewing out of them, some 
> with explosions of steam and rocks.  The areal view from TV news shows 
> parallel lines of smoke going through trees and neighborhoods, with 
> some lava spreading across roads, between -- and sometimes devouring 
> -- buildings, some of them homes.
>
> We are all waiting for The Explosion, which experts say will 
> undoubtedly come, but the wait could be for several months!! Here's a 
> link to a list of earthquakes in Hawaii that were over magnitude 6.1.  
> We lived in Honolulu for the two in the 1970's and we suffered from 
> the vog, but that's all.  Of the three more recent ones we were on the 
> Big Island and we definitely felt them!  It varies a lot where you are 
> in relation to the location of the earthquake.  The one 10 days ago 
> was stronger than the one in 2006, we were in the same house, but for 
> the recent one there was just some small damage to a china cup and a 
> few rocks. However the one in 2006 wreaked havoc around the house.  
> For example, we could not get into our study at first because the 
> floor was covered with books!
>
>  We hope for the best as the days and weeks (maybe months??) go by, 
> but we cannot do anything to prevent Madam Pele's work.  We do our 
> best to help the refugees from the lava.  That's all we can do.  (But 
> we'll keep our vases and especially delicate rocks in safe places!)
>
> Aloha, Kitty
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Hawaii
>
>
> On 5/14/2018 5:46 AM, Axel Emmermann wrote:
>> Hi Kitty and Bill,
>>
>> How's the air on the Mauna Kea slopes? Breathable, good, sulfurous,
>> noxious???
>> We think of you guys a lot these days and we follow the news closely.
>> Get Pele a bottle of gin... that just might help.
>>
>> Aloha from Axel and Christel
>>
>
>
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