{"id":64812,"date":"2018-05-05T04:27:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T04:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=64812"},"modified":"2018-05-05T04:27:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T04:27:39","slug":"in-hawaii-kilauea-volcano-erupts-spewing-lava-and-gases-near-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/in-hawaii-kilauea-volcano-erupts-spewing-lava-and-gases-near-homes.html","title":{"rendered":"In Hawaii, Kilauea Volcano Erupts, Spewing Lava and Gases Near Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Hawaii, Kilauea Volcano Erupts, Spewing Lava and Gases Near Homes<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

PAHOA, Hawaii \u2014 Fresh volcanic eruptions on the southern end of the island of Hawaii after a series of tremors left residents displaced and frightened as the authorities evacuated the state\u2019s largest park on Friday and worked to keep people out of two subdivisions that had been evacuated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Following days of small earthquakes, a more powerful one with a magnitude of 6.9 hit the south flank of the volcano at 12:33 p.m. Hawaii time. There was no tsunami expected, according to a statement from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, but \u201cmany areas may have experienced strong shaking.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That earthquake, which set off rock slides on park trails, forced park officials to close down and evacuate Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which encompasses 333,000 acres \u2014 13 percent of the Big Island\u2019s total area. Closing the park is a rare occurrence, Jessica Ferracane, a spokeswoman for the park, said on Friday afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n

About 2,600 visitors were being evacuated from the park, Ms. Ferracane said. \u201cIt\u2019s a double cruise ship day,\u201d she said, adding that there were people camping in the backcountry. More than two million people visited the park in 2017, the year after its centennial.<\/span><\/p>\n

Officials said that there had been no reports of injuries or death, but by Friday afternoon, two homes had been surrounded by lava and officials were warning of dangerous gases.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lava began bubbling up through a new crack in the Kilauea volcano on Thursday evening, but the lava flows, at least as of Friday morning in Hawaii, had been small, said Dr. Charles Mandeville, coordinator of the Volcano Hazards Program at the United States Geological Survey headquarters in Reston, Va.<\/span><\/p>\n

In all, the volcano had at least three new fissures as of Friday afternoon, but Dr. Mandeville cautioned that the detected increase in earthquakes, most of which had been small, meant more eruptions were likely.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s far from over,\u201d Dr. Mandeville said in an earlier interview.<\/span><\/p>\n

By Friday, nearly everybody had been evacuated from the Leilani Estates and Lanipuna Gardens subdivisions, the areas where the volcano had erupted, said Mayor Harry Kim of Hawaii County, in a news conference streamed on Facebook. Officials had opened two community centers to shelter people who fled their homes.<\/span><\/p>\n

By 8 a.m. in Hawaii, the cracks were still spewing sulfur dioxide gas and debris, but the lava flows had not gone far.<\/span><\/p>\n

The county\u2019s fire department reported that \u201cextremely high levels of dangerous sulfur dioxide gas\u201d had been detected in the evacuation areas, according to a release from the state\u2019s Emergency Management Agency. The Hawaii Police Department said on Friday it had closed access to the two subdivisions \u201cdue to hazardous air quality and unstable lava conditions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When a volcano erupts, gases often shoot out, including sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, which can be poisonous, and carbon dioxide, which can cause asphyxiation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chris Elliott Rodrigues, 40, who was sheltering at Pahoa Community Center after fleeing from his neighborhood, Hawaiian Acres, said: \u201cI\u2019ve been watching what\u2019s going on, the sulfur smell at my place was so strong.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI hope the lava activity keeps up,\u201d said Mr. Rodrigues, who worked at Lava Ocean Adventures. \u201cI want to go back to work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Several schools were closed on Friday, and temporary flight restrictions were put in place for most of the lower Puna District, where the evacuated communities were located, according to a spokesman from the state\u2019s Emergency Management Agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are approximately 1,500 homes in the area, the spokesman said. The Red Cross reported 66 people in two shelters overnight, he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI never thought I\u2019d ever be faced with this, I\u2019m just shellshocked,\u201d said Carl Yoshimoto, 69. He was sheltering at Pahoa Community Center with his two dogs, Sako and Suki, and his partner since Thursday afternoon. Their house is in Leilani Estates.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as I heard the order to evacuate, I grabbed important paperwork, medications, my wallet \u2014 we were out of the house within a half an hour.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Maddy Welch, 19, who works at Kalapana Bike rentals and lives in Leilani Estates with her mother, had set up a tent and a space at Pahoa Community Center with her two dogs, a goose and her friend, Taylor. \u201cI woke up around 1:30 in the morning to earthquakes,\u201d she said. \u201cMy mom didn\u2019t want to leave. I told her there are two vehicles leaving this driveway \u2014 I hope you\u2019ll be in one of them because we can\u2019t come back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of uncertainty,\u201d she went on. \u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On Thursday evening lava spilled from the crack in the volcano for about an hour and a half, leaving a large smear in a residential area of bushes and trees. Photos and drone footage showed a line of glowing orange slicing through green yards and white vapor and fumes rising above the trees. Gov. David Ige issued an emergency proclamation that made state funding faster to access, and he called up the National Guard to help emergency workers with evacuation efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kilauea is the youngest of five volcanoes that make up the island of Hawaii, and lies on the island\u2019s south. Dr. Mandeville said the signal that there might be more activity was the little earthquakes, which happen when magma moves against rock, in this case, two miles under the earth\u2019s surface. \u201cThat\u2019s where the plumbing system is,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

It remained to be seen how much damage the structures in the evacuation areas have sustained from the eruptions and the earthquakes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dan Jacobs, 47, who has spent the last six months building his house in Leilani Estates, was standing behind Pahoa Village Museum, a downtown hangout. \u201cI invested all my money here, and I probably won\u2019t have anything to show for it in about a month\u2019s time,\u201d he said. \u201cYou should see the floors I built, they\u2019re so beautiful, it\u2019s about halfway done.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Past volcanic eruptions, some that occurred decades ago, have caused lasting damage to parts of the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

An eruption from the Pu\u2019u \u2019O\u2019o cone of Kilauea in 1983 has continued to flow, destroying houses in the Royal Gardens subdivision. In 1990 more than 100 homes in the Kalapana community were destroyed by lava flow.<\/span><\/p>\n

An eruption from Kilauea in 2014 flowed down the surface of the volcano and burned a house in Pahoa. Now residents worry that more structures could be threatened in the area, which is one of the fastest-growing in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLiving on a volcano, everybody has got pretty thick skin. They know the risk,\u201d said Ryan Finlay, who lives in Pahoa and runs an online trade school. \u201cLava for the most part has flown to the ocean the last 30 years. Everybody gets in a comfort zone. The last couple weeks, everything changed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/04\/us\/kilauea-volcano-eruption-hawaii.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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