The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-11-19
KlLAUEA Is FINE
SPECTACLE BY NIGHT

TECHNOLOGY STATION, Novem-
Der l4.-Kilauea continues its activity,
with fumes on the whole becoming
thinner, occasional good seeing by day,
and fine spectacles every night. The
level of the lava in Halemaumau has
not changed essentially during the
week from November to Ia inclusive.
The activity and shape of the boiling
and streaming pools has changed
greatly day by day, the total effect be-
ing to unity scattered ponds into one
! large pool and to reveal finally the
fountain Old Faithful, so long conceal
ed under blowhole in hard rock. This
last change, which engulfed the blow
ing cone and revealed a pool of melt
beneath, took place between November
II and Is.
/ The last measure of depth of surface
of west pool below the edge of the
| Halemaumau pit, reported last week
| for November T, was 377 feet. A fair
/ ly complete plane-table survey of the
bottom area was made between noon
and 5 pm, November u from two sta
tons on the south and southwest rim.
! Two oval pools in ramparts of their
own building occupied the Sc. and
| NV. parts of the area with the spat-
ter cone of Old Faithful between them
ana little to the northward. A new
and powerful fumarOle was seen in the
talus 257 feet beneath the Sc. station.
The following levels were determined
November u, beneath the S.W. sta.
ton:
West pool, average depth to surface,
377 feet; East pool, average depth to
surface, 372 feet; average depth of
pools beneath edge, 374 feet; depth to
summit Old Faithful cone, $50 feet;
depth to border of lava flows outside of
pools, 372 feet.
The plan made by this survey shows
the active part of the west pool cres'
cent shaped with the horns pointed
east, smaller active hole farther west
and still farther west a chimney high
in the bank. The Old Faithful cone
was an irregular rocky beehive with q
glowing hole in the east side of its sum
nit which occasionally elected lava
spray rather weakly. The rampant
around the eastern pool was four or Ave
feet high, and from it, as from Ole
Faithful and the western pool also
chilled lava flows sloped away gently
to an irregular elliptical outline bound
ing the whole area of new lava, within
the pit wall and the slide-roek. Thu
eastern pool had active boiling pot
east and west, and the rest of its sur
face was a cracking crust with liqui'
oozing up the cracks. General crack
ing and laundering of block oe
, casionally took place in the west poo
also.
! Old Faithful Itself Again.
This description will serve for tn
= general condition of the pools between
r November and November 10. o.
+. the night of November 10, be
I tween 5 and 10 pm, an extTaordinar
Y transformation WAS found 10 hav
4 taken place. Conditions AT the ives
: were about the same, but the Old faifh
q ful cone and field Of lava east Of
4 had collapsed 20 AS 10 double in ~
4 the southeastern pool and extend
II over the whole east floor. For the fire
!. time In some weeks old Faithful sioo
q revealed ne its normal self, fnnntnlnin
r furiously every 80 to 40 SECONDS With
4 pool 0f partly rufted lava, and pea
q thc NV border Of the casters poo
throwing 10 Spray over the remnant d
Ne beehive 0n the shore,
\ Tho meet remarkable feature uf al
y uow ifuli fhlihml p however WaH
eaiarar d liquid glowing laYa Nhis