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"Lava from the Kilauea eruption has boiled away Hawaii's largest freshwater lake in just a matter of hours.
In a statement released on June 2, the U.S. Geological Survey explained that lava from the eruption's fissure 8 entered Green Lake and boiled its water away, sending a white plume high into the sky.
USGS tweeted that lava entered Green Lake at 10 AM local time. By 3PM, Hawaii County Fire Department confirmed that the lake had filled and that its water had evaporated." foxnews.com/science/2018/06/12/hawaii-volcano-kilauea-lava-boiled-away-big-islands-largest-freshwater-lake.html
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Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday June 13 2018, @08:08PM (13 children)
I live in a city built on something like 50 volcanoes, the youngest of which is only 600 years old.
None of them are erupting at the moment, but when I see the videos from Hawaii I feel like I ought to be more worried than I am.
Wikipedia reassures me that the volcanic field is dormant. Whatever that means.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 13 2018, @08:54PM (3 children)
Of course it is dormant. You wouldn't need me to tell you if it were not: earthquakes, eruption noise and your neighbourhood flattened by lava flows are hard-to-miss signs of non-dormancy, even for the uninitiated.
(Score: 5, Funny) by bob_super on Wednesday June 13 2018, @09:39PM (2 children)
Please update wikipedia before trying to outrun the pyroclastic flows.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday June 13 2018, @09:56PM (1 child)
And do not text and drive...
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(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Thursday June 14 2018, @01:30AM
But make sure you also periscope/twitch/insta/whatever the view in the rear view mirror on the way out...
(Score: 5, Informative) by The Archon V2.0 on Wednesday June 13 2018, @09:08PM (1 child)
> Wikipedia reassures me that the volcanic field is dormant. Whatever that means.
Don't worry, I'm sure that if there's an eruption during Wikipedia's lifetime, someone will update the page once the lava's flowing through the streets.
And then it will be reverted as original research.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 13 2018, @10:43PM
Hopefully it will last long enough to be cited by a news story, which can then be used a basis for re-editing the wikipedia page. ;-)
(Score: 3, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday June 13 2018, @09:51PM (3 children)
It's like Maui, and Mt. Saint Helens - they're dormant until they're not.
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday June 13 2018, @10:07PM (2 children)
Oh good. br.
That's got me feeling better then.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday June 13 2018, @10:57PM (1 child)
On Mt. Saint Helens they had suspicions for years, and pretty strong warnings 3 months ahead of the big boom:
https://sciencing.com/were-eruption-mount-saint-helens-8204440.html [sciencing.com]
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday June 13 2018, @11:31PM
Our local museum has a fantstic interactive volcano exhibit, and they assure us that there will be some warning, (they think).
If there is an eruption, I will just blame the government. It's a policy that has served me well.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Wednesday June 13 2018, @11:16PM
Are they not all dormant until the moment that they are not dormant anymore ... which is usually when you get a hot golden shower of lava?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @03:49AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @08:02AM
Ah, Orc-Land in LOTR. 50 volcanoes would cause about $30 (real value) in cleanup of the accumulated garbage.