[HN Gopher] Kilauea volcano errupts, lava more than 1k feet high...
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Kilauea volcano errupts, lava more than 1k feet high [video]
Author : asix66
Score : 55 points
Date : 2025-06-20 19:36 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.youtube.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com)
| asix66 wrote:
| YT link is live video.
|
| USGS info: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea
|
| Timeline: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/volcano-
| updates/volca...
| 0xbadcafebee wrote:
| Money shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24GcMK020Ao
|
| Three weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db9qvUWYgcQ
| beefnugs wrote:
| Guess dump didnt get the warning about not starting a ww3,
| now nature shows us how it can gladly participate
| ganeshkrishnan wrote:
| Big Island is an extremely interesting place. Its just few
| kilometers wide but it has around 8 climate zones ranging from
| snow, desert, volcano, tropical, beaches, rainforest what not.
| You can drive less than an hour and go from desert to snow and
| snow to tropical.
|
| There is one public bus that goes around and once I was the only
| passenger and the driver stopped the bus near the ocean to show
| the travelling whales/dolphins.
| jebarker wrote:
| Also the tallest mountain on Earth!
| aoki wrote:
| For those downvoting: As measured from the planetary
| surface(=sea floor in this case), as opposed to sea level
| tele_ski wrote:
| I've always thought that it seems like a silly way to
| measure it.. Everest also goes to the sea floor,
| technically.
| jebarker wrote:
| Then you'd be calling a whole continent a single mountain
| and it wouldn't be a continuous slope in one direction.
|
| I agree though that it's a bit silly to measure Mauna Kea
| to the ocean floor.
| eesmith wrote:
| Shout out to Chimborazo, where the summit is (likely)
| furthest from the center of the Earth. (I understand
| Huascaran is in contention, and don't know the latest
| details.)
| perihelions wrote:
| Everything is silly, and consensus reality on these kind
| of things is just a glorified Reddit thread IRL. There's
| at least four plausible metrics. Everest is tallest from
| the local mean sea level (the smoothed gravitational
| equipotential--what a stationary water surface hugs);
| McKinley-Denali from its local terrain base; Mauna Kea
| from the local terrain base inclusive of underwater
| terrain; and Chimborazo, in equatorial Ecuador (it's
| Ecuador because it's equatorial), as measured from this
| planet's center-of-mass (the planet bulges out
| approaching the equator because of its
| spinning--"oblateness").
|
| Like a Reddit thread, it's best not to argue too much
| with what the hive-mind decides. People literally died
| climbing what they believed to be the correct answer. Let
| them have their thing. :)
| tracerbulletx wrote:
| Enjoyed your clear description but I don't know that
| framing it as some kind of hive mind group think issue is
| that accurate. It's just taxonomy and ontology, it's ok
| to have different taxonomies for different contexts. The
| same issue exists for everything. planets, temperature,
| oceans, species..
| sejje wrote:
| How does the rain avoid the desert areas?
| nottorp wrote:
| It checks the biome type like in Minecraft!
| xKingfisher wrote:
| It's a "rain shadow"[0]
|
| The predominant wind is from the east, and the air cools aid
| forms rainclouds as it tries to rise over the mountains in
| the center of the island. Then warms again as it descends
| down the eastern slopes.
|
| So the eastern (Hilo) side is pretty lush jungle, and the
| west(Kona) is desert. With snowy mountains in between.
|
| [0]https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-
| images/rain-s...
| Ifkaluva wrote:
| Probably rain shadow due to the mountains
| WillPostForFood wrote:
| You must be thinking of a different island, Hawaii, the Big
| Island is big. 93 miles long, 76 miles wide. Maui has a narrow
| waist (an isthmus connecting two volcanos), 6 miles across.
| jasonthorsness wrote:
| Can't predict the volcano, but I highly recommend a helicopter
| trip over Kilauea if you have a chance to go. Even if it is not
| currently erupting, from the air you can see the cooled lava flow
| paths and it's clear the massive volume that occasionally flows
| out.
| colechristensen wrote:
| Kilauea has been erupting every week or two since Christmas Eve
| and fountaining every week or two for two months now.
| heohk wrote:
| Don't ride a helicopter unless you're ready to die
| daedalus_j wrote:
| Don't ever get in a motor vehicle, or indeed cross a street,
| unless you're ready to die. Both are much more dangerous.
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| Live link is useless link. Nothing to see except steam.
| Eduard wrote:
| timestamp for "lava more than 1k feet high" please.
| jmward01 wrote:
| This has been happening for a while now on a fairly regular
| schedule. Geology hub covered a previous eruptive episode:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkMz4b5Ogd8
| dluan wrote:
| The VOG lately on Oahu has been really bad, desperately hoping we
| keep tradewinds around. A few weeks ago we had Kona winds and it
| was nauseating.
| dboreham wrote:
| A rule that has emerged over the years is that if there's some
| volcano erupting spectacularly, if I book a flight and go fly
| there, it will immediately stop. So if anyone would like the lava
| to cease, just send me a plane ticket...
| okanat wrote:
| Tom Scott is that you?
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