I used to spend some time at |Pohakuloa Training Area, | a 170,000-acre reservation on the saddle between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. A very strange, unearthly environment of lava flows, pu'us and some classic Quonset huts built in the '50s.<img src="https://historichawaii.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Picture2.jpg"> The west side of the Big Island is dry and deserty, like Montana only with a seashore and 10% slope. The Big Island is the last to have been formed by volcanic action so the slope are not eroded away yet (like Kauai). The east side gets all the rain and is jungle-y and wet.<img src="http://i65.tinypic.com/25i9ml1.jpg">
I don't have any friends left on the Big Island. They all either moved to Maui, Kauai, or back to CA.
Active Fissures
I spent most of my adult life within walking distance of this one:
<img src="http://www.indiana.edu/~sierra2/news_02/day7/earthquake_fault.jpg"</img>
I used to spend some time at |Pohakuloa Training Area, | a 170,000-acre reservation on the saddle between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. A very strange, unearthly environment of lava flows, pu'us and some classic Quonset huts built in the '50s.<img src="https://historichawaii.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Picture2.jpg"> The west side of the Big Island is dry and deserty, like Montana only with a seashore and 10% slope. The Big Island is the last to have been formed by volcanic action so the slope are not eroded away yet (like Kauai). The east side gets all the rain and is jungle-y and wet.<img src="http://i65.tinypic.com/25i9ml1.jpg">
Damn, I hope Hawaii will be OK.
All those different colors in the picture above are various lava flows. Like this one, most of them happen slowly, giving people ample time to get out of the way. Here's a detail of recent ones. <img src="https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/archive/multimedia/2005/Jul/050725-web-map-update.gif">
Here's another. These things are beautiful. <img src="http://bigislandnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/VW-2017-07-12_Mauna-Loa-NE-geologic-map_full-sheet_USGS-1024×547.jpg">
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This guy is hilarious.
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Teach a man to fission…
http://www.navajotimes.com/news/2013/1013/102413u…
Curtains =/= drapes?
Monica Yellowcake?
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