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Ok_Morning3588 t1_iu5ulnu wrote

In 2018, about two dozen fissures opened on the Big Island and wiped out most of Leilani Estates south of Hilo in the Puna district. (I lived in Hawaiian Paradise Park and friends lost houses in Leilani Estates. Here's an article from May of that year: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/05/06/a-very-fast-moving-situation-lava-shoots-through-hawaii-neighborhood-as-new-fissures-form/) Another eruption would not be violent, like Mt. St. Helens, for instance, it would likely be another flow that goes to the ocean and creates more land. While slowly wiping out everything in its path on the way.

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Dedpoolpicachew t1_iu6j4o0 wrote

Yea. If you go to Redfin and zoom in on the area, you can still see the ads for the houses that used to be there. Just a little morbid real estate tourism. Some of the houses lost were REALLY expensive.

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seanbrockest t1_iu8r9t4 wrote

I wonder if those fissures from 2018 now exist as weak spots, or are they like calcium deposits filling in a broken bone that are actually stronger than the surrounding bone?

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