Mt Kilauea just erupted big time...

Back when I lived in Hawaii, the legend was that goddess Pele would stop the eruption after the lava reached the sea. That hasn’t seemed to have happened yet.

I don’t believe in those myths about Pele, but I do believe that they were based on observations of cause and effect...that once the lava flow was big enough to reach the sea, the energy inside the volcano has been sufficiently released to allow the volcano to go back to the normal quiescent state.

I think that based on the current observations from the USGS, the same will happen this time too.