https://www.washingtonpost.com/weath...-nearly-empty/

"The draining of the lake that is located within the appropriately named Volcano Island may be contributing to this seismic activity as well.

Tony Lowry, a geophysicist at Utah State University, said the water in the small lake may have drained out due to “fissures that have opened up that are permitting the water to drain out.”


He does not expect this water to affect the course of the eruption, since it’s clearly being driven from the rise of magma from below the surface, and the volatility of the eruption is occurring at a deeper depth, where the magma is meeting water.


Another possibility, Lowry says, is that the water has been blown out of that island by the eruption. ““Depending on where the eruption is coming from it may well be that a lot of that water has been blown away,” he said.

“I wouldn’t think this would add to the hazard a great deal,” he said."


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