HVO Happenings Developing Energy from an Active Volcano: The Kīlauea Geothermal Story So Far On September 25, HVO scientists will present a brief history of geothermal development in Hawaiʻi, including a description of the hydrothermal system on Kīlauea Volcano's lower east rift zone and potential seismic and volcanic hazards, in this "After Dark in the Park" program. Kīlauea Visitor Center Auditorium, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, 7:00 p.m. Free. "A mantle-driven surge in magma supply to Kīlauea Volcano during 2003-2007" This Nature Geoscience article (http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v5/n4/full/ngeo1426.html) by current and former HVO scientists explains that the amount of magma from the Hawaiian hotspot is not supplied to Kīlauea at a constant rate, but can experience surges, which can cause significant changes in the volcano's eruptive behavior. Hawaiian Volcanoes—This month in History September 24, 1971 Kīlauea erupted for the second time in six weeks just after 7:00 p.m. Within an hour, cracks opened across Crater Rim Drive (left), forming a small graben about 3 m (10 ft) wide and 2 m (6 ft) deep in the pavement, and lava began fountaining from a zone of fissures that extended from the central part of the caldera into the southwest rift zone. Fissures and ground-cracking continued to migrate down Kīlauea's southwest rift zone for a distance of 12 km (7 mi), with lava fountains erupting from a succession of discontinuous vents during this 5-day-long eruption.

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