For the second time in about one week, there's been two different sets of earthquake swarms of 2.0's to 3.0's in the northwest flank of Mauna Loa, the second tallest volcano in Hawaii island chain, just by a small amount of height to neighboring Mauna Kea.

After Kilauea being the most active, Mauna Loa is still quite active as well, with the last eruption in the 1980's.

Now there "maybe" magma building, otherwise known as inflation. 

Of course, USGS is still downplaying this as completely normal ... but I've been staring at the earthquake maps for about 3 years ... and usually, we'll get sporadic and random 2.0 or 3.0 but only once every week or sometimes, as little as once every month. But this has been swarms twice in one week span.

I don't think any eruption is imminent, as I believe with such huge massive volume of the volcano, there needs to be lots of magma to create that eruptive pressure to come out.

If it erupted in that area, depending on how it erupts, the flow would take it towards Captain Cook area or Waikoloa area. Kona generally would be protected because it sits at the base of Hualalai volcano, the other active volcano.

We shall see, modern science still can't predict these earthquakes and/or eruptions, although there have been some off-the-book theories of some predictions.

What do you think?