Link: Full audio for Tuesday, June 19 USGS media conference call
Tuesday evening, USGS Volcanologist Steve Brantley gave a presentation in Pahoa High School. A lot of it is fairly simple, recapping the eruption for residents of Puna. I’ve covered most of what he does in previous posts. But there are a few new tidbits.
His takeaway is worth seeing if you don’t read/watch the rest:
…until that balance is reached, or something else changes, we expect magma to continue moving from the summit reservoir into the rift zone and further down into the Lower East Rift Zone. So that suggests that we’re in it for the long haul. We don’t know how long this eruption’s going to last, but for now, it looks like it’s just going to continue.
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