>> THANK YOU, CHRIS. 5.34 WE CONTINUE TO FOLLOW BREAKING NEWS ON HAWAII ISLAND. VOLCANO BEGAN ERUPTING AT ABOUT 4.44 THIS MORNING. HERE TO TELL US MORE ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON AND WHAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO EXPECT. USGS HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY, SCIENTISTS IN CHARGE, KEN HON, MISTER HART, NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN. THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. >> GOOD MORNING. A FRIGHTENING THIS LARGE THE ALL YOU YOU'RE ACTUALLY KIND OF LIKE A LITTLE CALM FOR US BECAUSE OF TALKING TO YOU. WE GET THE INFORMATION ACCURATELY PRECISELY. AND YOU TELL US EXACTLY WHAT TO EXPECT AND MAYBE KIND OF WHAT NOT TO EXPECT. SO LET'S GET GHRIGHT TO IT FOR 44 AM IT STARTED ERUPTING. WHAT ELSE CAN YOU TELL US? >> WELL, THIS IS GOINTO BE A A KIND OF A REPEAT OF THE SUMMIT ARE ACTIONS THAT WE'VE HAD RECENTLY STARTED IN 2020. RIGHT. AND THIS LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE ONE OF THE LARGER ONES. IT'S ALREADY A NEW LOVE IS ALREADY COVERED COMPLETELY. THE FLORIDA PUBLIC CRATER. AND THAT IS STILL GOING STRONG. WE EXPECT THAT THIS REALLY IF PART OF THE REPS AND THE LAST FOR A DAY OR 2. AND THEN IT SHOULD COME TO COME DOWN AND GO BACK TO SOMEWHAT LOWER FUSION RATES. BUT IT'S REALLY SPECTACULAR RIGHT NOW. THERE'S RED LAVA OVER THE FLOOR OF CRATER. WE DON'T EXPECT IF THEY HAVE ANY IMPACT OUTSIDE OF BEEN SORT OF WAIT, EVEN WE THE CONDITIONS ON PHILO AT HAVE PRETTY MUCH. PRIME THE ERUPTION TO RESTART. IT'S BEEN 5 MONTHS SINCE THE LAST ERUPTION BEGAN IN JANUARY 5TH AND IT ENDED IN MID FEBRUARY REALLY EARLY MARCH. AND THE SUMMIT GIVEAWAYS CONTINUE TO INFLATE. AND LAST NIGHT STARTING AROUND AND WE STARTED TO GET FLURRIES OF EARTHQUAKES, WHICH REALLY INTENSIFIED AROUND 3.40, THIS MORNING. AND THAT'S WHEN WE UPPED OUR ALERT LEVEL FROM YELLOW TO ORANGE. AND THEN AT 4.44, FOLLOWED WITH A LOVE OF COMING UP RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF ONLY >> NOW CAN, FIRST OF ALL, YOU SAID THE SITUATION WAS PRIMED FOR IT TO START WITH HE MEAN BY THAT, MADE IT PRIME? >> WELL, WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS OVER THE LAST MONTH OR SO THAT THEY SOME OF KILLER HAS CONTINUED TO INFLATE. AND SO THE INFLATION LEVELS WERE HIGHER THAN ANYTHING WE'VE IN THE LAST. 2 YEARS OR SO. SO IT IS BEEN WE COULD TELL THAT MAGMA WAS BEING STORED THERE AND THEN WE WERE STARTING TO GET CERTAIN EARTHQUAKES AND NUMBER OF EARTHQUAKES REALLY MMIT D UP BENEATH THE SU AS WELL. AND SO WE WERE JUST SORT OF WAITING FOR CONDITIONS TO BE. TO GET TO WHERE THE VOLCANO WILL THROUGHOUT. SO WE'VE BEEN KIND OF WAITING AND EXPECTING THIS FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS RIGHT NOW. >> SO YOU HAVE BEEN MONITORING IT AND WATCHING IT FOR WEEKS NOW BECAUSE IT SEEMED LIKE WELL, THIS MORNING, THOUGH, THE WARNING LEVEL OF THE AVIATION LEVELS WERE WE'RE CHANGE IN ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE'S ACTIVITY AND THERE'S AN ERUPTION. >> YEAH, WE DON'T GET MUCH. YOU KNOW, WE'RE IN A NEW PHASE OF LIFE SINCE 2018, WHERE WE'RE NOT GETTING DAYS OF WARNING. SO THE SAME THING WITHOUT OF INTERRUPTIONS AND THE ERUPTION, WE REALLY ONLY GET ABOUT AN HOUR WORTH OF REAL WARNING BEFORE THE ERUPTION TAKES PLACE TO WHERE WE CAN SAY CONFIDENTLY. THERE'S GOING TO BE INTERRUPTION. >> NOW WE KNOW THAT MOTHER NATURE IS UNPREDICTABLE, BUT YOU DON'T BELIEVE THAT THIS WILL. I EXCEED THE CRATER THAT IT WILL STAY WITHIN HALEMAUMAU CRATER. >> YEAH, I THINK THIS IS JUST PART OF THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS THAT WERE SAYING REFILLING LITTLE COLLAPSE. HAPPENED IN 2018 AND WE'VE ALREADY FEEL THAT ALMOST 1000 FEET OF THE COLLAPSE GREATER THAT OCCURRED IN 2018 HAS BEEN FILLED UP WITH LAVA. >> AND THIS CERTAINLY LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO CONTINUE THATWE EXPECTED TO IT'S IT'S GOING TO BE VERY VISIBLE FROM THE VIEWPOINTSE WITHIN THE PARK. AND WE ACTUALLY EXPECT IF THIS ERUPTION CONTINUES TO GO ON TO GET UP TO THE NEXT LEVEL AND START FLOWING OVER THE NEXT LEVEL OF THEM DROP BOX IN WITHIN. HE THERE. >> CAN BEFORE WE LET YOU GO, IF PEOPLE ARE JUST JOINING US, PLEASE LESS KNOW AGAIN HOW LONG THEY CAN EXPECT. KEEP TO ERUPT AND ALSO IF YOU WANT TO LET THEM KNOW, SHOULD THEY BE 'T CERNED? AND ALSO WE DIDN TALK ABOUT AIRIR QUALITYS WELL. >> YEAH, I THINK THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE THE BIGGEST CONCERN RIGHT NOW IS THE START OF THESE DIRECTIONS BECAUSE LOVE HAS BEEN STORED. HAVE A LOT OF LAVA COMING OUT AND HENCE A LOT OF VOLCANIC GAS. WE HAVE PRETTY MUCH NORMAL TRADE WIND CONDITIONS RIGH NOW. SO THAT MEANS THAT MOST OF THIS GAS IS GOING TO LOW TO THE SOUT PH TO THE PEOPLE IN AU LAIT, TOO. AND OVER OCEAN VIEW AROUND THE SOUTH END OF THE ISLAND. SOHEY'RE PROBABLY IN FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS OF PRETTY AND LEVELS ARE GOING TO RETURN TO NORMAL. AND I WISH I COULD TELL YOU HOW LONG THE ERUPTION CONTINUE FOR. BUT THAT'S ONE THING THAT IT'S VERY HARD FOR US TO PREDICT ARE MUCH BETTER LOOKING AT THE ONSET ERUPTION SENT WHEN THEY'RE GOING TO END. BUT WE GUESS THAT THAT'S TYPICAL OF THESE OTHERS. AND IT CAN LAST FOR SEVERAL MONTHS. >> ALRIGHT, SEVERAL MONTHS. BUT RIGHT NOW, RESIDENTS NOT BEING IMPACTED IN TERMS OF IT COMING ANYWHERE CLOSE TO NEAR STRUCTURE. ANYTHING. >> RIGHT THERE. THERE'S NO THREAT TO ANY INFRASTRUCTURE WITHIN THE PARK AND CERTAINLY NOT ANY INFRASTRUCTURE. PERSONAL PROPERTY OUTSIDE THE PARK. WE DID, HOWEVER, JUST GET FINISHED WITH THAT LARGE SEISMIC SURVEY THAT WE HAD. 2000 MEMBERS PLACED OVER THE SUMMIT OF KILAUEA. AND WE'VE PICKED UP MOST OF WITHIN THE CALDERA. WE LEFT THEM DOWN THERE JUST RECORD IF AN ERUPTION STARTED. SWE ACTUALLY HAVE AN EXTRA ABOUT 100 SITES MEMBERS DOWN IN THE PUB THERE RIGHT NOW, WHICH SHOULD BE REALLY INTERESTING WE WILL BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THAT DATA FOR PROBABLY 6 MONTHS OR A YEAR. BUT THE WE SHOULD HAVE A LOT OF DATA AND THSTART OF THIS ALL RIGHT. WELL, WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO THAT. DATA CAN HAN AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO SPEAKING WITH YOU AGAIN. HOPEFULLY IN A LITTLE
