📑 Hawaii’s Kilauea has been simmering safely

One of the things that struck me when I visited New Zealand last year was what it meant to live with the constant threat of geothermal activity. Living in a country with no active volcanoes, it can be easy to take such thibgs for granted. Visiting places like My Eccles almost seems like a novelty. I remember walking around Taupo and see the signs for emergency meeting points. This was something that really hit home when I visited Craters of the Moon, an environment that was only just out of town yet both alive and other worldly.

The recent eruptions in Hawaii and activity at Yellowstone reminded me of this. A reminder that all that is beautiful is often the product of some form of destruction.

Incredible footage shows the lava flow during this morning's fissure eruption on the east side of Hawaii's Big Island.

More than 1,800 residents have been evacuated from their homes. https://t.co/W5FHFgVrEP pic.twitter.com/vRykMZW7tF

— ABC News (@ABC) May 7, 2018