Hawaii volcano eruption latest news: Locals told ‘LEAVE NOW’ – latest evacuation closures

Tuesday, May 29, 2018
By Paul Martin

HAWAII officials monitoring the volcano eruption have told residents to evacuate immediately as fast-moving lava flows down streets of neighbourhoods close to the Kilauea volcano.

By AMANI HUGHES
Express.co.uk
Tue, May 29, 2018

Geologists reported a fast-moving pahoehoe lava flow from fissure 8 is advancing on Nohea and Kupono Street north of Leilani Street at 6pm on Monday local time (7am BST Tuesday).

In an update at 6pm yesterday local time, the Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency said: “There are reports of lava fountains on Moku Street. Anyone in the area, from Pomaikai east, needs to leave now.”

Lava was continuing to creep across a road in the Leilani Estates area at a rate of 13 feet per hour, USGS Volcanoes said.

Ash explosions at the summit of Kilauea have continued and one explosion on Monday at 8.30am local time (7.30pm BST) sent an ash cloud 13,000 ft (4,000m) into the sky.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.4 struck the Hilina region of Kilauea at 5.40pm local time on Monday (7.40am BST), however it was not strong enough to generate a tsunami, officials said.

Officials with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center on Oahu said while no tsunami is expected, “some areas may have experienced shaking”.

The USGS said the volcano was centred about six miles south of the volcano at a depth of roughly 3.4 miles.

A “vigorous eruption” of lava continues from the fissures in the lower East Rift Zone, as magma continues to be supplied to the lower East Rift Zone.

The magma has drained from Kilauea¹s summit lava lake and flowed about 25 miles (40km) east underground, bursting out of about two dozen giant cracks or fissures.

A inspection from a plane on Monday evening (local time) showed fissures 16, 18, 22, 13 and 20 were active and 6/13 and 7/21 had reactivated, with the highest fountains sent from fissure 7/21.

Ash continues to erupt intermittently from the vent within Halema’uma’u crater at Kilauea’s summit.

Winds have weakened and shifted in direction, so ash fall could plague the neighbourhoods around the summit area.

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