Kilauea Lava Flow Oct 8, 2008

This lava flow started around Oct 6, 2008 when it broke out of the existing tube system near the TEB source of the East Rift Zone. The video starts with a fast moving stream near the 1600 foot elevation and ends at the broad front of an a'a flow that it was feeding at the 1200 foot elevation.

Recorded October 8, 2008

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• lava
• Kilauea
• Hawaii
• volcano

[MrJcm94]

In some sort of strange way, im tempted to touch the fast flowing one. Id lose whatever body part i touched it with, but........ Tempting

[volcanochaser]

@MrJcm94 What you don't get a feel from lava videos is the tremendous amount of radiant heat given off by large flows. At about 20 feet from this flow, it is almost impossible to stand your ground for two seconds while taking a picture. Smaller flows are easier to approach, but they would just be oozing along instead of fast flowing. It is this radiant heat that keeps visitors at a safe distance.

[Brivixxycej8]

@volcanochaser

Don't trees have the ability to survive within a few feet of flows this size?

[volcanochaser]

@Brivixxycej8 Yes, trees along the edges of the flow and even small islands of vegetation in the middle can survive right next to flowing lava if the trunk isn’t burnt and the root system isn’t cooked. For example if the lava next to a tree doesn’t touch the tree and the flow stops in a few hours, there will not be enough time for the heat to reach the root system. But if the lava keeps flowing for days, then enough heat will penetrate the soil in the surrounding area and kill all the roots.

[volcanochaser]

@Brivixxycej8 More trees survive next to a’a flows like at the end of the video because the greater surface area of the clinkers is able to dissipate more of the heat to the atmosphere and the flow near the edges cools off relatively fast. The smoother pahoehoe flow lingers close to the ground and is able to flow into cracks and heat the ground in the surrounding area. This particular flow was mostly flowing over other recent flows which had already wiped out the vegetation.

[EDUARDOHOCOHUOC]

muda!

[volcanochaser]

@EDUARDOHOCOHUOC Lava del tipo pahoehoe como al comienzo no hace much ruido. Lava del tipo a'a como al fin si hace ruido. Otros videos en youtube de pahoehoe que hacen much ruido no es por la lava pero por el ruido del viento en la camara.

[kinjur]

The crystallization process is very interesting.

[MzChelxoxo]

It looks like DORITO liquid

[theminecraftreeper]

i am subing

[MandM101videos]

Lava is soo cool !

[ohiaderimzak]

i just want to blow a bubble with it

[TeamVeZe]

yummi!!!

[lamorte42]

you were the chosen one!!

[SabretoothSnowMan]

It was almost theraputic watching that lava flow, like a chocolate fondu

[danielkronos]

Wow, thats just, plain evil, imagine this being used as a military bomb, that would be absolutely insane.

[TehDoomVideos]

Imagine someone just falling into it.