Two U.S. Marine Corps helicopters were on standby Friday to possibly transport people from Hawaii’s Big Island, near Kilauea’s lava flow, as an unprecedented volcanic eruption entered its fourth week.
A third lava flow from Kilauea began streaming into the ocean in lower Puna district on Thursday, between Pohoiki Bay and MacKenzie State park, producing a messy cloud of noxious gases containing tiny glass particles.
After crossing Highway 137, a lava haze known as ‘laze’ rises where lava is hitting the ocean near the small community of Pahoa in the District of Puna, Hawaii, on Thursday. (Marco Garcia/Reuters)
About two dozen fissures have opened down Kilauea’s east flank since May 3 and about 2,000 people have already left the southeast
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