Oooh, an Earthquake Swarm

The update from around dawn this morning says there were 16 earthquakes yesterday and today between magnitude 3 and 5 in the Loihi area (loihi is the newest Hawaiian island, still underwater, but constantly being built by the volcano). That's a lot of earthquakes, but I haven't felt any of them. Earthquakes are constant here, but always notable because a lot of them means the volcano is acting up somewhere.

There is a 'glow' visible from the end of chain of craters road after dark (6 pm). You can walk 1/2 mile on the road and several hundred yards on the old lava to a viewing area and maybe see a steam plume or lava entering the ocean, but its 2 miles away so you won't see much. Hiking in to the ocean entry is prohibited right now due to danger of bench collapse (miles of land fall off into the ocean).


Bottom line: A 45 minute drive from the hawaii volcanoes national park entrance station will show you some glow on the cliff. You won't be able to get very close.