{"id":29141,"date":"2022-11-28T02:48:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T12:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=29141"},"modified":"2022-11-28T10:35:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:35:40","slug":"mauna-loa-awakens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=29141","title":{"rendered":"Mauna Loa Awakens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am not certain what woke me up at one AM, but I was awake. Before going back to sleep I decided to check the satellite photos to see if I might get some telescope time before dawn. But what I found online had me totally awake and grabbing a couple batteries for the camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mauna Loa has awoken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was soon driving out from the house to a point above the village with a clear view of the mauna. The whole southern sky an angry red over the village as I drove. I did not have to drive far, just a couple minutes from the house where you can find a clear view. Pulling off I set up the camera and shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was not the only one out, half a dozen cars could be seen stopped along Waikoloa Road to view the eruption. The whole mauna is lit up red and it looks like the west flank is erupting, not just the caldera as Civil Defense currently insists. Just the clouds lit up on that side?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life is intertesting.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Mauna<\/a>
Mauna Loa Eruption from Waikoloa<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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\"Summit<\/a>
A summit webcam view of the new Mauna Loa eruption showing an active rift across the caldera floor.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Update:<\/strong> By dawn much of the caldera has flooded with lava. Scale is hard to see in the photos, you have to recall that the caldera<\/a> is almost two miles across and three miles from end to end.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Mauna<\/a>
The Mauna Loa caldera eruption at dawn Nov 28, 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Update 9:11am: The eruption has already migrated to a series of fissures on the northeast flank. The typical Mauna Loa eruption script is a summit caldera eruption followed by a flank eruption a few days, or a few weeks later. We have just seen that happen in a few hours.

I am including a couple photos here taken by a co-worker as she commuted across the saddle this morning at dawn. You can already see the lava flows making their way into the saddle…<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Mauna<\/a>
Mauna Loa Erption at Dawn, photo by Marcela Balleza<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Mauna Loa Eruption at Dawn, photo by Marcela Balleza<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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