Lava flowing faster. Has consumed more homes today

Resident Ikaika Marzo likened the sound of lava to as many as 20 jets taking off at once in people’s back yards.

“It’s huge grenades going off,” he told Hawaii News Now. “It shakes the whole community.”

Edwin Montoya said a fissure that sent lava across the road began as a “little crack in the ground, with a little lava coming out.”

“Now it’s a big crater that opened up where the small little crack in the ground was,” he told the Associated Press.

Montoya, who lives with his daughter on a farm, said he managed to take some valuables from his property Saturday morning, including batteries and $4,000 worth of equipment and solar panels.

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Startling aerial images show the devastation being caused by the latest eruption of lava at Hawaii's Kilauea volcano.

One picture, taken on Saturday, shows lava rushing towards a home in Pahoa after consuming another moments before.





Kilauea had begun to spew lava up to 200 feet in the air and fire out lava bombs the size of refrigerators on Friday, as scientists discovered fresh lava had begun to boil over and make its way out.

Fresh lava moves faster and spreads further than old lava. Previously the magma spurting from Kilauea had been stored in the volcano from a previous eruption in 1955.



Four more homes were consumed by the magma on Saturday morning after lava spread 1,000 feet in less than an hour, the Hawaii County Civil Defense Center said.

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Multiple fissures are actively spurting and fountaining out lava, which is moving faster now the older magma has been cleared

The volcano has been erupting for more than two weeks now, and has coated more than 325 hectares of Leilani Estates and Lanipuna Gardens in lava.


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