Hawaiian Volcanoes are not part of the Ring of Fire
Updated 6/14/2018 2:27pm HST, originally published 6/9/2018 I intended the next post to be about searching for a home on Oahu. But the media is obsessed with Kilauea. Ignore the news media. Except they keep making us sound like we are all going to die... Folks on Hawaii Island are having a hard time. If you haven't heard, Kilauea on Hawaii continues to erupt, the most recent eruption actually began in 1983, the location of the fissures and the flow are somewhat new. One fissure is fountaining lava, which produces Pele's hair (lovely wafting glass filaments that are murder on human tissue) and gases, and lava. Once the lava flow hits the ocean it produces laze , which is very dangerous to anyone in the immediate vicinity. Therefore Hawaii County Civil Defense is keeping everyone out of the immediate vicinity. But Kilauea is not Mt. St. Helens, people. Mt. St. Helens is part of the Ring of Fire, with a different amount of silica in it's magma/lava, leading to