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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018
U.S. Geological Survey
Lava spatters Wednesday from the Kilauea volcano near Pahoa, Hawaii.
By COLIN MURPHEY
The Daily Astorian
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ava bubbling up from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii is nothing new. The iconic geological feature is one
of the most recognizable attractions in Hawaii and remains one of the most accessible erupting volcanoes in the
world. What isn’t normal is for lava to begin erupting out of the ground miles away. Homes have been destroyed,
people have been evacuated and now, with the latest eruption, ash has begun falling from the sky after the volcano shot
a plume 30,000 feet into the air.
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
Visitors view Kilauea’s summit crater outside the Jaggar
Museum in Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii.
U.S. Geological Survey
Activity at Halema’uma’u Crater has increased to in-
clude the nearly continuous emission of ash at Ha-
waii Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawaii.
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong
Hannique Ruder, 65, a resident of the Leilani Estates subdivision, stands on a mound of hardened lava last week
near Pahoa, Hawaii.
Hollyn Johnson/Hawaii Tribune-Herald
A fissure erupts near the intersection of Kahukai
Street and Leilani Avenue in Leilani Estates.
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Geological Survey
Gases rise from a fissure near Pahoa, Hawaii.
A Hawaii Volcano Observatory geologist
records a temperature of 218 degrees at a
crack along Nohea Street in Leilani Estates.
AP Photo/Caleb Jones
With members of the National Guard in the foreground, volcanic
gases rise from active fissures near Pahoa, Hawaii.