No, Lucifer. Like LaPalma last year, you can't do this to the west coast. He just turns it off and it all stops right now. Jail breaking is the big theme of our age; it has never been successful. Ever.
Don
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About two weeks after Earth’s largest active volcano began erupting, Mauna Loa has gone quiet. So, too, has Kilauea, its smaller neighbor on Hawaii’s Big Island, which had been erupting almost constantly for more than a year.
“We feel pretty confident this eruption has, in fact, paused and is probably over,” Ken Hon, scientist in charge of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, said Tuesday in reference to Mauna Loa.
But volcanologists don’t know whether there is a link between the end of the two eruptions, something that highlights the larger challenges the scientists face in analyzing and predicting volcanic activity. Mauna Loa is among the best understood and most closely watched volcanoes in the world because of its record of activity, with 34 eruptions since 1843, and yet significant questions remain about the factors influencing when it erupts and when it quiets.
That uncertainty extends to other hazardous volcanoes as well, prompting volcanologists to suggest that observations of the Mauna Loa eruption could help inform predictions of eruptions elsewhere.
There had been signs since September that Mauna Loa was primed for its first eruption in 38 years. It finally happened in late November. And volcanologists had been observing signals of diminishing activity at Kilauea in recent weeks. But it was otherwise challenging to pinpoint the timing of activity at either volcano.