Latest Lava News

The scientist who updates the observatory's lava updates sites has been gone since the 14th, so nothing new is showing there. A phone call to the HVNP also reveals that nothing has changed with viewing since my last posting. We did, however, have a pretty big earthquake last Wednesday, January 18th - Magnitude 4.7. I didn't feel it, but a lot of people did around here. It was centered at Loihi (the next Hawaiian island, still underwater of the southern coast of the Big Island) so it probably did not do much to Kilauea.