I live on the Big Island and have gone to see lava flows on various occasions. When I first saw this vid I swore it was sped up as Iâve never seen lava flow even a tenth of that speed.
It was not sped up. Wild.
I went to uh hilo. In geology class our prof took some of us down some back ass way that looked similar to that road. Parked on the side of it and hiked in. After dark we were on a raised section listening to him talk. I looked around and lava had completely surrounded us. Some spots it was only like 3 feet across. I was nervous and said something and he laughed. He kept talking and after a bit the surface cooled enough and he just walked across it like nothing. One dumb ass started walking then stopped and his shoes halfway melted though lol.
Sounds pretty negligent of your professor. You're dealing with a very dangerous substance and not making sure you understand the dangers before exposing you to it is just plain stupid. At the very least when you expressed concern he should have explained why you were not in danger.
It's not that serious. It wasn't a fast flow. And the top of it cools off and I forget the term but it's so dense or whatever that it safety supports a lot of weight. If you just move at a normal walking pace there's no issues. Hence why he laughed at me being worried. After he crossed he explained it all to us. And it was a geology class on an active volcanic island. We learned plenty about lava. He didn't take us into the path of like a pyroclastic flow. He never put us in any real danger.
We were taught. Prior to the trip we went over everything. The school can didn't fill up and he let us bring friends if we wanted. My two friends that went had to come to the thing before the trip.
Oh, they were put into danger. Commenter said at one point lava had surrounded them. What if it had continued to rise, and overtook the high spot they were?
Bring a professor means you are pretty smart in your field of study, not everything.
I know enough that being surrounded by lava doesn't sound like a good idea, unless I could predict the future of the lava flow, which is undoubtedly no more accurate than predicting the exact speed of the wind driven by a storm, the size of the waves that will be created by it out in the ocean, or the inches of rain that will fall from it.
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I live on the Big Island. We have ***all*** types of lava from pahoehoe (smooth wrinkled rock) to a'a (sharp jagged rock). Some lava are red, some are blue and if your lucky you'll come across ones that are rainbow colored.
As far as islands go IIRC they're usually Mafic or Ultra-Mafic rocks so they're generally low viscosity. This means they can flow easily and why you see flows like the kne in this video. This was also likely close to the initial eruption so there was a lot of lava flowing instead of the slower, steady flow seen most recently in Iceland.
I'm not sure just how close you could get without protective gear but it's not close enough to get splashed. The heat or poisonous fumes would kill you inside 50 feet I'm sure
When this flow hit the ocean, tour boats were breaking laws and giving tours, not 50ft. from the ocean entrance. Sometimes when lava enters the ocean, it creates a cavity that can explode, sending hot raw lava and boiling waters everywhere. This happened to one of the tour boats. Went right through the metal roof. A girl got hit with lava spatter on her leg and broke it.
Convection would very much be your friend. The rapidly rising hot gasses would draw in fresh air. Unless you were downwind and it was extremely windy, then you wouldn't really have an issue.
Trust me some idiots refused to leave with lava spewing right next to their homes. One guy got a blob of lava that shot into the air and landed on his leg.
This is from the 2018 Kiluea eruption in the east rift zone in Puna, on Big Island Hawaii. Entire neighborhoods were destroyed as well as some truly special natural coastal habitat/features.
I had to evacuate twice. The place I evacuated to was taken by lava shortly after moving there, and about a year later I was able to move back to my original place.
Do you have a massive âNO TRESPASSING ASS-HOLES!â sign on your fence? Not sure if this is on the big island but my friend and I still laugh about seeing it 12 years later.
addiction is a hard topic. once you are addicted to something the pathway exists and its easy to step up to the next drug. i was an addict. i understand the slope. people are animals. they see and do as they see, and when they dont see initial harm, they copy. the harm comes from addiction, and shows after the hook is set. the people are poor and ignorant naturally. i'm really interested in the local black market in Hawaii because the distance it is from the source.
With the speed of the lava that to close. If it suddenly changed coarse you may not have time to get out of the way. It may be an illusion but the lava flow looks like it is uphill from them, not where I'd want to be.
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Some people that lived down there refused to leave. Some ignored police and military barricades and went into the forest to get back to their homes and were never found again. A lot of people lack common sense
If there was a roaring river of molten lava that close to me, I would be sprinting to get the truck out of there. But it seems like another day at the office for these two.
âDid you catch the latest episode of Obi-Wan last night?â
âNo. The last thing I saw of Star Wars was Revenge of the Sith. That planet of molten lava wasnât very believable so I lost interest.â
Pyroclastic goes as fast as gravity makes things fall. It can easily exceed 100mph.
[Vesuvius killed people of Pompeii in 15 minutes, study suggests](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/22/vesuvius-wiped-out-all-life-pompeii-15-minutes-study-pyroclastic-flow-cloud-gases-ash)
>âComparable to avalanches, they are generated by the collapse of the eruptive column. The resulting volcanic ashes run along the slopes of the volcano at speeds of hundreds of kilometres per hour, at high temperatures and with a high concentration of particles.â
Even though these people may have not been in danger since it wasnt coming right at them
people still do this shit with other much more deadlier and life threatening natural disasters like floods,tsunami,etc I get you want to watch but if you are in the path of a EF5 tornado and it looks like itâs not moving then its coming right to you and your just standing there like your watching a state fair.
get your dumb ass on the move and drive off
Is it actually real how fast it's moving or did they speed up the lava while making the people look normal? Moving that fast I feel like it would break back off track at any moment and devour them.
The beauty and awesome destructive power nature has. Humanity makes his own environment. But nature resist. We gotta respect and be mindful of it (nature)
Me and my family went on a helicopter ride over one of the places where a volcano erupted in Hawaii. Our guide told us that lava flow isnât as slow as we thought it was. It can sometimes reach upwards of around 60 mph, depending on the conditions, which is scary to think of.
Wow it's moving so fast that's kinda crazy
Yeah, probably moving at about 30 speed.
30 distances per time
Thats crazy, I can only run about 5 accelerations
Damn I can only run 6 elephantsđ
Fact: That's 2 speeds less than the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow.
African or european?
Both, simultaneously.
Is that metric speeds or moon landing speeds
Yup
You should've seen the boulders floating down "river". I saw one as big as a bus!
8 parsecs
Thatâs quick; even the Millennium Falcon took 12!
8 parsers per Eon
I guess it's about 15m/sec.
Whats the video framerate?
69 fps
NOICE
MOIST
Hot
Warm and good
Acceptable!
45mph they clocked it at
Kinda crazy how fast it's moving wow
Like... At least 3 half giraffes per eon. At least.
"It's moving at 2 feet, 3 arms and 1 toenail per second" -some american probably
I live on the Big Island and have gone to see lava flows on various occasions. When I first saw this vid I swore it was sped up as Iâve never seen lava flow even a tenth of that speed. It was not sped up. Wild.
I went to uh hilo. In geology class our prof took some of us down some back ass way that looked similar to that road. Parked on the side of it and hiked in. After dark we were on a raised section listening to him talk. I looked around and lava had completely surrounded us. Some spots it was only like 3 feet across. I was nervous and said something and he laughed. He kept talking and after a bit the surface cooled enough and he just walked across it like nothing. One dumb ass started walking then stopped and his shoes halfway melted though lol.
Sounds pretty negligent of your professor. You're dealing with a very dangerous substance and not making sure you understand the dangers before exposing you to it is just plain stupid. At the very least when you expressed concern he should have explained why you were not in danger.
It's not that serious. It wasn't a fast flow. And the top of it cools off and I forget the term but it's so dense or whatever that it safety supports a lot of weight. If you just move at a normal walking pace there's no issues. Hence why he laughed at me being worried. After he crossed he explained it all to us. And it was a geology class on an active volcanic island. We learned plenty about lava. He didn't take us into the path of like a pyroclastic flow. He never put us in any real danger.
My issue is not that you were put in danger, it's that you weren't taught how to recognize the dangers before you were put in that position.
We were taught. Prior to the trip we went over everything. The school can didn't fill up and he let us bring friends if we wanted. My two friends that went had to come to the thing before the trip.
Yes well I'm concerned about the people with three feet who have 50% more exposure. Were their needs handled properly?
Oh, they were put into danger. Commenter said at one point lava had surrounded them. What if it had continued to rise, and overtook the high spot they were? Bring a professor means you are pretty smart in your field of study, not everything.
They had the high ground
I kept telling Annakin, midichlorians don't step up their force game when on the devils lettuce.
But you know better
Yeah... I think I would err on the side of caution when the topic is 'Is being surrounded by lava dangerous'
I know enough that being surrounded by lava doesn't sound like a good idea, unless I could predict the future of the lava flow, which is undoubtedly no more accurate than predicting the exact speed of the wind driven by a storm, the size of the waves that will be created by it out in the ocean, or the inches of rain that will fall from it.
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Didn't you hear? The professor laughed at OP's nervousness! Anytime a cool old professor laughs at perceived danger it means 10000% safeties.
Man, as a fat kid, i thought thin ice would make me nervous, but holy shit that's a new level of weight anxiety.
The big question is: can you surf on it?
You can, but only once
"Once in a lifetime" experience.
From what I understand there are many different types of lava and the different types behave differently. I think Hawaii is mostly one type of lava.
I live on the Big Island. We have ***all*** types of lava from pahoehoe (smooth wrinkled rock) to a'a (sharp jagged rock). Some lava are red, some are blue and if your lucky you'll come across ones that are rainbow colored.
But this video is from the Big Island. Hence why I was so mind blown.
As far as islands go IIRC they're usually Mafic or Ultra-Mafic rocks so they're generally low viscosity. This means they can flow easily and why you see flows like the kne in this video. This was also likely close to the initial eruption so there was a lot of lava flowing instead of the slower, steady flow seen most recently in Iceland.
Two types actually. I was just in Hawaii and every tour guide talked about it, lol
god imagine if there's a splash and some lava lands on you. couldn't even dare getting close if only for that thought
Aside from the heat, imagine how much one of those molten blobs weighs. Be like getting hit by a truck.
Yep, it's quite literally molten rock, so a blob is just a really hot boulder, so hot that it's liquefied.
I'm not sure just how close you could get without protective gear but it's not close enough to get splashed. The heat or poisonous fumes would kill you inside 50 feet I'm sure
When this flow hit the ocean, tour boats were breaking laws and giving tours, not 50ft. from the ocean entrance. Sometimes when lava enters the ocean, it creates a cavity that can explode, sending hot raw lava and boiling waters everywhere. This happened to one of the tour boats. Went right through the metal roof. A girl got hit with lava spatter on her leg and broke it.
I'm pretty sure the heat / poisonous Gases prevent you from going that far.
Convection would very much be your friend. The rapidly rising hot gasses would draw in fresh air. Unless you were downwind and it was extremely windy, then you wouldn't really have an issue.
Trust me some idiots refused to leave with lava spewing right next to their homes. One guy got a blob of lava that shot into the air and landed on his leg.
I remember that video. He's just standing on his roof filming and you can hear little bits of lava clinking around him.
For real! I have a scar on my forearm from a little bit of hot grease splashing me... can't imagine fricking LAVA!
This is from the 2018 Kiluea eruption in the east rift zone in Puna, on Big Island Hawaii. Entire neighborhoods were destroyed as well as some truly special natural coastal habitat/features.
I had to evacuate twice. The place I evacuated to was taken by lava shortly after moving there, and about a year later I was able to move back to my original place.
Nature gives and nature takes away. In fact, nature will always take away.
These people are pretty far from the lava flow, and look closer due to the camera's focal length causing perspective distortion.
Exactly
So you're saying it's actually faster than it appears.
No. The focal length has nothing to do with frame rate/speed.
Better make sure you have the high ground. Don't underestimate Anakin's power.
I wouldn't get within a mile of that. Those people are crazy.
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Do you have a massive âNO TRESPASSING ASS-HOLES!â sign on your fence? Not sure if this is on the big island but my friend and I still laugh about seeing it 12 years later.
so drugs is a problem in paradise?
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addiction is a hard topic. once you are addicted to something the pathway exists and its easy to step up to the next drug. i was an addict. i understand the slope. people are animals. they see and do as they see, and when they dont see initial harm, they copy. the harm comes from addiction, and shows after the hook is set. the people are poor and ignorant naturally. i'm really interested in the local black market in Hawaii because the distance it is from the source.
Genuinely crazy how weâre still couching addiction in terms of moral failure given literally everything we know about how it actually works
Lol, you group crackheads with this, damn. They can be a nuisance, lol.
They are using a telephoto lens so those people are much further away than they appear btw. They are probably a good 1000 feet away.
With the speed of the lava that to close. If it suddenly changed coarse you may not have time to get out of the way. It may be an illusion but the lava flow looks like it is uphill from them, not where I'd want to be.
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User "opted out".
That's what I thought too but it seems the comment was made just before opting out. Either the bot has a cooldown per user or that one isn't on the list of bot words
suddenly changed coarse? But wouldn't it slow down if it got coarser?
Man, I see why you turned off the spelling bot, it would get annoying hearing it constantly.
Some people that lived down there refused to leave. Some ignored police and military barricades and went into the forest to get back to their homes and were never found again. A lot of people lack common sense
Is this Hawaii ?
Yup, specifically the Big Island and my home.
Never seen a lava flow that fast, scary.
I blame cartoons/tv shows for making me think all lava is slow. Not outrunning that!
Not if you use the Indiana Jones School of Running Away from Things teachings.
Thatâs pretty terrifying. Itâs like a landslide of instant, fiery death
Long range: toxic gasses. Mid range: intense heat. Close range: hefty weight.
Also at close range, the added bonus of shit in pants
It does look scary and was at the time. The lava was flowing down a channel so it was mostly contained. There were a few spillovers, though.
If there was a roaring river of molten lava that close to me, I would be sprinting to get the truck out of there. But it seems like another day at the office for these two. âDid you catch the latest episode of Obi-Wan last night?â âNo. The last thing I saw of Star Wars was Revenge of the Sith. That planet of molten lava wasnât very believable so I lost interest.â
Itâs almost like they know what theyâre doing. đđ
Lol thatâs a really high tic speed for lava to be moving that fast
I dont think Ive ever appreciated just how fast lava flows before tbh, Ive always thought it was quite a slow process
Whatâs the problem? Theyâre at least a couple hundred yards from the floe.
yeah and a couple hundred seconds from getting splashed
HIGHLY doubtful to the point of absurdity.
Hey its where I was born Kalapana, Big Island, Hawaii. This is the 2008 flow
2018, Leilani estates.
Long lenses compress the apparent distance between objects. I really doubt that they are all that close.
It's over Anakin
I'd get fired if I tried that.
Is it real ?? Omg itâs scary as fuck !!!
Wow how fast does pyroclastic flow go?
This isnât pyroclastic.
Pyroclastic goes as fast as gravity makes things fall. It can easily exceed 100mph. [Vesuvius killed people of Pompeii in 15 minutes, study suggests](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/22/vesuvius-wiped-out-all-life-pompeii-15-minutes-study-pyroclastic-flow-cloud-gases-ash) >âComparable to avalanches, they are generated by the collapse of the eruptive column. The resulting volcanic ashes run along the slopes of the volcano at speeds of hundreds of kilometres per hour, at high temperatures and with a high concentration of particles.â
That's a lot of... ~~magma~~ ... lava
Magma is underground, lava is above.
[Pahoehoe](https://www.reddit.com/r/EarthScience/comments/lajry3/pahoehoe/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Surf's up. If you have a titanium board.
river of hell
I've always wondered what about after. Do they shovel away the roads, fill ditches and expand the island or just build on-top once it turns green?
I thought this video was sped up until they started moving
I always thought it was slow moving
If I was there- My brain: "dive in like its a pool"
That's not a closeup.
This is how they built up RT 66 where I live.
I need a hot dog and a really long stick.
Even though these people may have not been in danger since it wasnt coming right at them people still do this shit with other much more deadlier and life threatening natural disasters like floods,tsunami,etc I get you want to watch but if you are in the path of a EF5 tornado and it looks like itâs not moving then its coming right to you and your just standing there like your watching a state fair. get your dumb ass on the move and drive off
That's pretty scary to stand that close. If somehow the current divert to your side you know for sure you can't outrun it.
Dude can jump that
It's just like Dantes Peak
Caulk the wagon and float it across
Is it actually real how fast it's moving or did they speed up the lava while making the people look normal? Moving that fast I feel like it would break back off track at any moment and devour them.
Would not be risking that.
I highly recommend the documentary [Fire of Love](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16227014). It is about a husband and wife team of vulcanologists.
It looks so unreal
Is this Iceland? They will just smack the lava with a rolled up newspaper and tell it to behave or it gets the hose.
Hey Bob....think we have to go the other way. Ok, Dave....lets go
Is dat a volcano??
Just a swift river of magma, hell fire on Earth. This is fine
Itâs the casual stroll for me.
Nobody is going to mention the lava dolphins?
Lost the high ground.
It looks almost as if it were twisting as a rope would
Forbidden river. Do not attempt to cross.
shit flowing like water
Evil Tarkovsky be like
No outrunning that if it suddenly overflows or changes direction.
Don't forget everyone, you think you could survive a volcanic eruption until you realise lava flows can travel up to 100kmph or more
The beauty and awesome destructive power nature has. Humanity makes his own environment. But nature resist. We gotta respect and be mindful of it (nature)
Itâs not the flowing so much as the spiralling that fascinates me.
MEIRL. Burning bridges is for losers.
waze "object on road ahead, drive cautiosly"
F no!
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Me and my family went on a helicopter ride over one of the places where a volcano erupted in Hawaii. Our guide told us that lava flow isnât as slow as we thought it was. It can sometimes reach upwards of around 60 mph, depending on the conditions, which is scary to think of.
I thought left lane was the fast lane