It would keep doing what it is doing "lava wise" for about 2 years. But, it could go faster or slower and other magma lakes might open up too. I think you have to apply "Chaos theory" to all of this. A way to check Chaos Theory is like in the movie Jurassic park which is to take a drop of water and to drop it in the same place on your hand each time and how it will tend to take a different path each drop as it travels over your hand. Lava is the same as water in this case because it can take so many forms because it can be at so many different temperatures once it reaches the surface and touches the air. The air then begins to cool the surface of the lava and this might create lava tubes as the surface cools from contact with air or moisture while the hotter internal part stays fluid and keeps moving. Under ground it holds it's high temperature but as soon as it hits air or water all this begins to change at least on the surface of the lava.
So, no matter how big the lake of lava is underground one never knows precisely what is going to happen when it hits air or water at any point along the way.
So, for example, if you take the 700 acres of lava now that has gone into the ocean and filled up that bay and think of that being what has happened since or May maybe imagining 2 years worth of May to August 700 acres of lava is possible (or potentially 700 new acres in the ocean every 4 months) which could either make the 700 acres time 6 or 4200 new acres of lava in the ocean OR it could do something else entirely like build a mountain cone of lava as well where it comes up out of the ground. Because Mauna Loa and (Mauna Kea now 14,000 feet high) started out as lava cones vented upward instead of outward towards the ocean like right now.
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