Loading ...I’ve been looking all day for information on the advance of the Fissure 8 lava flow that kept me up half the night last night. YIKES!
This image is looking SW upslope. The ‘river’ is 100 ft. wide. If it had gone to the right side of the image, it would be coming toward me. Fortunately it is following the flow map ‘steepest descent’ path and is now about a mile from Beach Road and has slowed a little bit. But residents are scrambling to get out of Kapoho before the escape route is cut.
The current flow map is here as of 6am when this image was taken. Image courtesy of USGS.