Eruption Quick Take: Crusted lake rising, lifting north vent cone
1:48 AM · Jan 22, 2021In today’s quick take we’re looking at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory’s F1 thermal camera looking into Kīlauea volcano, in the pit of Halemaʻumaʻu. We begin with zoomed-in time-lapses of the last ten days, looped forwards and backwards, showing a rising motion of the back crust which carries the inactive north vent cone. The big island is seen to be moving a little as well. In the next sequence, we see the crusting over of the back part of the lava lake only interrupted what was already a rising motion happening before, then it keeps going as already seen. We end with the full 1 month of eruption time-lapse showing 2 days per second, first forwards and we close in reverse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXYvQmu7_ps #Kilauea2021 Images from F1cam courtesy of USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory Image collection: Bob Martin Compilation & narration: Philip Ong