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I had friends from Ventura that were staying in Kalapana back in '85 or '86 when Kilauea first started coming back to life. They witnessed some of the biggest eruptions, they saw burning rocks the size of small houses being tossed in the air like pebbles. Soon after, Kalapana was gone.

Not my field, not something that I've been terribly interested in before. Your very clear and understandable style gives me lots of information with no hyperbole or click bait. Subscribed and slowly going through your back catalog. Thank you for sharing this knowledge and expertise with us.

Thanks for the update. I appreciate you doing this during your busy life.

Aloha from Makaha.....morning updates with Shawn....love it

Thx, Prof, for another interesting geo-adventure. ✌🏻

Thank you @shawnwillsey for another excellent update! We enjoy watching them as much as you enjoy making them :)

Willsey videos have become a huge part of our natural hazards unit in 9th grade Earth science class! Thanks Shawn!

Bob Ross... That's the voice I found you sound like , I could listen to you talk all day, guess you found your profession lol

Thanks!

I'm glad that you know your way around the USGS site. I tried to find the live webcams of Kīlauea and just bounced around a whole lot for 5-10 minutes! Sheesh! Thanks for the update, as always. Good to have a Geologist to interpret the data and likely scenarios.

Good Morning Shawn, from Grand Forks, ND

Nice also these updates from Hawaii!

Sad to hear the crater road closed. It’s such an amazing drive down to the ocean! Thanks for the update!

Hello Shawn from central New York State.

Thanks for all of your hard work man!

Yet another fascinating volcano to watch! Thanks for the update.

Since I live here I visit the HVO webpage every day,. Thank you for making the more technical stuff understandable. Absolutely no felt quakes yet, but there's usually one in the 4-5 Ricther scale that'll happen before or not too long after an eruption.

I feel lucky that we got to drive down Chain of Craters Road last Thursday! Even if we didn’t get to see an eruption…🤪

Hi Shawn and everyone from New York

Thanks for the update! Appreciate your taking the time to cover and interpret the facts with us!

Volcanoes just doing their thing. Mother nature is awesome.

Thank you Shawn for the update.

Good morning from Santa Monica CA 🌴

Thanks once again Shawn: as fascinating as ever. Really appreciate the way you manage to fit these great updates into your daily life.👍😄

Hey Shawn 😊

Thank you for this update 😊

I’ve never been to Hawaii, and haven’t had much desire to fly all the way from Maryland until now. When you describe the areas now closed, I really would like to see them. Iceland is closer….

Fascinating. I gave this channel a follow! I'll keep up with your updates, and maybe see an eruption when I visit in July!

Thanks Shawn great to see and understand what’s going on in Hawaii

Once again, thank you!

Thanks, I enjoy all your videos.

Thank you, its really interesting to be learning and recognising familiar patterns in volcanic activity across the world; the same but different ❤

Thanks for update

Thanks for sharing Sir! Very interesting and informative. 😊

Great update. Kilauea is almost always doing something interesting. It does not rest much.

Thank you. I had been wondering.

Thank you, Shawn! ✌️💙

Thanks for keeping us updated. Interesting to see the similarities and differences between Hawaii’s volcanoes and those in Iceland. I really enjoy your channel. Thanks again.

Thanks for upates from Princeton tx❤

One of the residents of Leilani has a channel under Doing Hawaii which has got a lot of the usgs data running almost all the time.

Headed there next week. Happened to be there in 2018 too.

Hey Professor, Why haven't you informed us about the "Ruang" volcano eruption? Looks like a good one. Peace ✌️

Thank you for posting these clear videos. I've decided that if you want to be a volcanologist, you have to be able to pronounce impossible words.

new USGS updates were posted for today around 9 am Hawaii time...

Stiff neck vog increased overnight.

@shawnwillsey Why don't we see error bars on the GPS graphs like we do for Iceland?

Interesting that USGS says "all is fine, don't worry, just a few earthquakes", but the park closes Chain of Craters indicating that an eruption that could cut off the road could happen any time. Having ridden my bike down Chain of Craters in 2018 (all the way to Kalapana! (bikes are allowed past the barrier), I know how isolated it is down there. No cell phone signal. And no way to warn people to get out. However, as there is since 2018 the "emergency exit" that is very rough but passable very slowly, people stuck on shore could evacuate towards Kalapana if Chain of Craters back up to mai park site become impassible. (Going down Chain of Craters was extremely difficult because of extreme winds and I had to ride on left side of road to have a bit of shelter from the rock cuts until I was at low enough altitude that I got shelter the cliff, and at sea level, the winds were far mroe normal and died down as I traveled towards Kalapana.

Do you have any info about the Ruang volcano?

Hi from Payson 🙋‍♀️

Question ❓ is the depth of the earthquake determined from the top of the land or sealevel or...? So if there is a quake on a mountain of 2000m, and a quake at 1500m depth, is it then 'in' the mountain or at 3500m from the surface? Thanks in advance and keep up the great work.

Kilauea needs to catch up to Iceland. Hopefully not in the bonkers way it did in 2018.

*bell icon clicked*

From the top of Mauna Loa to the ocean depth next to the big island is about 28,000 feet. What is the likely hood for a catastrophic collapse / sloughing / landslide of a huge chunk of the southeast part of the island (both above and below sea level)? The island must be under tremendous strain and google earth shows fracture lines running perpendicular to where one would expect the vectors of strain to be. The extreme elevation differential, coupled with the forces possibly imparted by the Hawaii Hot Spot, looks to me to be a high risk of the collapse to happen. Aside from the devastation to the island itself, the resulting tsunami would travel thousands of miles.

Now, if this was Iceland, they would build a camping site above the hotspot. Tourism is important!

KGMB news on Oahu

I am sure that iceland earthquakes are doing the same over a weeks period

Just don't blow the whistle and everything will be fine...

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