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Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Erupts, Prompting Evacuation Orders (chicagotribune.com)
"Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted Thursday, releasing lava into a residential neighborhood and prompting mandatory evacuation orders for nearby homes," reports Chicago Tribune. The eruption comes after officials had been warning residents all week that an eruption was possible and that they should be prepared to evacuate. From the report: Hawaii County said steam and lava poured out of a crack in Leilani Estates, which is near the town of Pahoa on the Big Island. Leilani Estates has a population of about 1,500, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. But the evacuation order only covers a portion of the neighborhood. Nearby community centers have opened for shelter. The Puu Oo crater floor began to collapse Monday, triggering a series of earthquakes and pushing the lava into new underground chambers. The collapse caused magma to push more than 10 miles downslope toward the populated southeast coastline of the island.
Surely you mean INCOMING NUKES. This is the Hawaii emergency management agency we're talking about.
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Have you tried turning the volcano off and on again?
1. How is this remotely related to technology? 2. PART of ONE neighbourhood received an evacuation order... and this is world-newsworthy HOW?? 3. How the fuck does MAGMA flow on the SURFACE??? We are nerds, remember. 4. This is local news to Big Island, Hawaii. And our story is from... a Chicago newspaper? WTF.
Is the whole point of this post so that neckbeards can make "Puu oo" jokes?
Well, because it's George Bush's ... sorry, I mean Trump's fault, of course!! Somehow ...
Doesn't that make it about technology and nerds?
Hawaii isn't sovereign, they're a state and due to their strategic position they were going to be somebody's territory regardless. As things panned out, they got full statehood - they really shouldn't be bitching because had any other nation taken it they would have just slaughtered the inhabitants. Honestly though, they shouldn't even be a state but an occupied territory like Guam or Puerto Rico.
Because Geeks, not just nerds and geeks can be geeky about all sorts of science including volcanology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., geology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and plate techtonics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... News for the nerd, there is more to science than just computers and it is all of interest to most geeks and nerds, some can be really, really, anally focused in on their own specific interest and lose sights of the many facets of science to be explored. So news at 11, the Hawaii 'Big Island' is getting bigger and that is interesting. Not that interesting in a real estate sense though, because bigger does not mean worth more for a whole bunch of thousands of years but it will, I'll bet some bean counter is trying to work out a way to sell future real estate no yet available, sort of in mid air above the sea at the moment but it will be land one day, a long term investment, a real long term investment.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Which native people should we give it back to? The "first nations" had this nasty habit of slaughtering/conquering each other. Kinda like people did everywhere. Hawaiian tribes had the same habit. Shouldn't the "sovereign nation of Hawaii" also give the land back to the previous tribes they conquered?
Hurricane: Atlantic Ocean and northeastern Pacific Ocean
Typhoon: Northwestern Pacific Ocean
Tropical Cyclone: South Pacific or Indian Ocean.
Hawaii is in the NE Pacific, so it does get hit by hurricanes.
I think you will find he was elected to not be Hillary.
He bombed an empty building in Syria and called it a win to get Israel to stop bitching about fake gas victims.
Please stop calling this an eruption. Kilauea has been erupting continuously since 1983. This is not a new eruption. This is a new rift, a new spot that lava comes out of the ground. There have been a number of these over the course of the ongoing eruption.
The eruption isn't over until the lava lake at the summit hardens and stops.
Moderating "-1, Disagree" is simple censorship. Have the guts to post your opinion.
I have to say now I've read the article, and it IS actually really interesting. This is a totally cool interface between "eruption" and "civilization", with lava vents opening up in the roads. And now I see what is called "magma" really is underground where magma is still "magma".
Lastly, it is a major evacuation and not just part of one neighbourhood, as the TFS suggested.
So, totally cool story. And my post really was a troll post. I am sorry, Slashdot readers.
Take off every 'sig' !!