The eruption of a volcano in Hawaii threatens to turn from an ordinary to a catastrophe of a planetary scale. The usual eruption here is not surprising. But the trouble is that the islands began to split, one after another there are cracks through which the lava rises.
Here is the last, the seventeenth crack on the island of Kilauea has a length of half a kilometer. And through all these half a kilometer magma spills onto the surface. On Sunday, the population of the island of Halekamahina was evacuated, there too they prepared for the eruption. "It's almost a constant roar, like the take-off of 747, which alternates with deafening explosions, destroying the earth, and 100-pound lava bombs flying 100 feet up," said 64-year-old Mark Clawson, who lives on a mountain near another newly formed cracks.
A specialist from the Hawaiian Volcanic Observatory of the US Geological Survey, Tina Neil says that sprays soar up to tens of meters. Her forecast is very disappointing: "The situation there is actively dynamic, and as we have already said, within a few days the outbreaks will continue both in the ascending and descending currents of the existing system of cracks, and the number of cracks will only increase".
And the western tip of the Big Island of Hawaii over the houses in Pahoa smoke other cracks. Three new cracks opened on the Big Island, they ejaculate magma continuously and have already "built" something high in a four-story house. US Geological Survey warns that there will be more powerful cracks.
Because of the crack that passed near the plant Puna Geothermal Venture had to urgently evacuate 60 thousand gallons of flammable liquids.
According to the specialists of the Hawaiian volcanic observatory, underground magma will escape to the surface of the earth with large rapidly moving waves. With it will rise volcanic smog and toxic gases. The experts are very worried about the state of the entire western coast of the USA.
The Hawaiian Islands are located in the "Fiery Belt". In the event that it comes into motion (and, it seems, exactly this happens), the landscape will change not only in America, but also in the land of Earth. Now there are all conditions for the strongest eruption, and the account is already on the clock.