The lava flow from the ongoing eruption of Mauna Loa on the island of Hawaii has stalled out 1.7 miles from the Saddle Road highway that bisects the island from east to west.
The U.S. Geological Survey said Friday that “the inactive main flow front remains stalled.” A day earlier, it was moving at a pace of around seven feet per hour.
The Saddle Road stretches from the city of Hilo in eastern Hawaii to the city of Kailua-Kona in western Hawaii. Neither the road nor other infrastructure was under threat as of Thursday.
“Just to emphasize, there is no current threat to any island communities or infrastructure at this time,” David Phillips, deputy scientist-in-charge at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO), told the Associated Press Thursday.