The lava lake at Kīlauea’s summit was only about 150 feet below the floor of Halemaʻumaʻu crater on Sunday — the highest it has reached, according to the scientists of the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
Video courtesy USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory | Voice of Stephanie Salazar
For the past several months, lava within the summit vent has been slowly rising. As of October 5, 2012, lava reached a level that covered the previous high-lava “bathtub” ring within the vent.
It was around this time that the bangs and booms of the volcano began to be heard as far away as the Jaggar Museum Overlook in Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park, thrilling crowds day and night.
The HVO says the rise in lava level within the vent is associated with a modest uplift and expansion of Kilauea’s summit area. The root cause for this expansion isn’t clear.
The lava level within Pu`u `O`o crater, while elevated, is not extraordinarily so, and lava flows haven’t reached the ocean in nearly a year.
See entire article:
http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2012/10/17/video-kilauea-volcano-lava-lake-reaches-highest-level/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qecKGkUOaKc#!
Thanks to Kenneth Lund for these links
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I,m watching the earthquake maps for weeks already and near that volcano there has been at least 10 earthquakes the last weeks , nearly all on the same spot.
Interesting related event – do they know something we don’t know?
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3427
AndrewS : Very interesting indeed given the fact that there was a sudden small earthquake swarm near the old faithfull geyser last week.
Also a renewed activity of old geysers at Yellowstone that became dormant 25 years ago : http://www.yellowstonegate.com/2012/06/dormantyellowstone-geysers-active-again/
Points to a more active volcano and thats confirmed by this http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/887-yellowstone-caldera-uplift-110207.html
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same watching and same conclusion…theres a lot of activity right across asia and over to the sth merican coast, fiji and samoa etc etc all having some biggish rumbles.