So in my last post on this website, I wrote how the US Geological Survey predicted in 1992 that the Pu’o ‘O’o eruption appeared to be winding down…and how wrong that prediction was, since the eruption continued on for another twenty-five years and didn’t look like it would stop anytime soon.

A few months after I wrote that post, the situation at Kilauea changed completely. Pu’u ‘O’o now appears, for most intents and purposes, to be a dead vent, and the focus of activity has moved several miles downrift.

In any case, I wanted to formally apologize to Pu’u ‘O’o if I somehow jinxed its existence as an active volcanic vent.