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I'm far more worried about the Yellowstone caldera going boom. That would affect everyone on the planet.

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Surprised they are not discussing hilina slump more.
 
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In point of fact Kilauea is, IIRC, the single most active volcano on the planet. I would expect it to make a big burp every once in a while. I'm amazed the State of Hawaii allow construction as close to it as they do. That whole corner of the big island should be off limit to permanent construction, because what is happening now was bound to happen. This is not the first time that volcano has run over houses.

Doesn't surprise me in the least. There was a time it would have. But ever since I moved into an area that is, or was, mostly lakes and swampland, and watched the state, county and municipalities allow building in places that flood regularly, what government allows surprises me no longer.

Learning that was why, when I bought our home, I didn't rely on anybody else, but did my own research. We're surrounded, literally, by flood-prone properties. But we're on a ridge. Those other properties are where the water from the ridge we're on goes.



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For many years they have been reports that Hawaii would go kaboom but till date it’s still standing, beautiful and safe...people who like there should be rather for a SHTF scenario though.
 
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Yeah, Oahu is roughly 1/8 the size of The Big Island and 8 times the population

I think the population of the big island and Maui/Molokai are almost the same


Think almost a million people on Oahu, but less than 200,000 on Hawaii. But...it’s been a long time since I lived there, and I haven’t seen any recent census or anything


Yeah, something close to that, guess what we'll all move (1 million +) to Texas, because the cost of living here is too damn high and gun laws suck. What city Houston or Dallas is the question? Cowboys?

People live in flood zones, tornado zones and volcano zones, and even after catastrophe hits time and time again, they still move back and re-settle...go figure.
 
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The real danger is if too many people panic and run to one side of the island.

Yeah, then it'll tip over, and everyone will drown. So, folks really need to take each a chill pill. Smile


I'm concerned the island will split in half along the fault line and sink.




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Yeah, Oahu is roughly 1/8 the size of The Big Island and 8 times the population

I think the population of the big island and Maui/Molokai are almost the same


Think almost a million people on Oahu, but less than 200,000 on Hawaii. But...it’s been a long time since I lived there, and I haven’t seen any recent census or anything


Yeah, something close to that, guess what we'll all move (1 million +) to Texas, because the cost of living here is too damn high and gun laws suck. What city Houston or Dallas is the question? Cowboys?
Please! Please! If you do that, leave all the Liberals/Progressives back there! (Hawaii is considered even more Blue than California.)

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I don't think I heard it will blow up the way that Wyoming might or even the way Mount St. Helens did, but the volcano might erupt and rain down some lava bombs and ash.

That would be exciting but not devastating for the whole island.

But who knows. This is above all of our pay grade.




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Originally posted by Kevbo:
Yeah, Oahu is roughly 1/8 the size of The Big Island and 8 times the population

I think the population of the big island and Maui/Molokai are almost the same


Think almost a million people on Oahu, but less than 200,000 on Hawaii. But...it’s been a long time since I lived there, and I haven’t seen any recent census or anything


Yeah, something close to that, guess what we'll all move (1 million +) to Texas, because the cost of living here is too damn high and gun laws suck. What city Houston or Dallas is the question? Cowboys?
Please! Please! If you do that, leave all the Liberals/Progressives back there! (Hawaii is considered even more Blue than California.)

flashguy


Well...then it would be about six of us, me my buddies...wives are iffy at this point. Razz

You're right though, our former AG, was alll about turning Hawaii into a sanctuary state..fighting President Trump's temporary ban on immigration all the way...I don't get it...why?? Now he's running for Lieutenant Gov., and after that you know what...Dems rule, hardly any Republican presence to speak of at all...send help now!!
 
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Not to be a harbinger of doom but, there was that volcanic lake in Cameroon that put out a lot of co2. It asphyxiated 2000 people and all of their live stock. It could happen...
 
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Vesuvius?



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Different kind of volcano

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Vesuvius?


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Vesuvius?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos
 
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Yes. You didn't specify when....



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The real danger is if too many people panic and run to one side of the island.


Darned right, the island could capsize.


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I'm far more worried about the Yellowstone caldera going boom. That would affect everyone on the planet.

Jim


I heard a geologist say This was a bunch of bunk pushed by Nat Geo types for ratings. There will be an eruption there, but the threat of it being a massive cataclysmic type event is almost nil.


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Not to be a harbinger of doom but, there was that volcanic lake in Cameroon that put out a lot of co2. It asphyxiated 2000 people and all of their live stock. It could happen...

Geology is completely different in Hawaii.
 
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Interesting animated image of what is occurring at the caldera in Volcano National Park:


Even though I've been there I was having trouble understanding where the fissures were and why it seemed like the media was talking about multiple locations. This map gets updated daily and helped:



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Place: the rim of Kilauea
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Kilauea68 - 1a by kpkina, on Flickr



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It doesn't seem to be showing any signs of slowing down.




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