Shocking footage shows hot lava spewing into Hawaii streets, swallowing car
At least 35 buildings on Hawaii's Big Island were destroyed after the state's Kilauea volcano erupted, spewing hot lava from at least 12 fissures into surrounding streets and forests.
More than 1,700 residents have been evacuated as a result, Hawaii News Now reported.
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According to Live Science, Kilauea has always been an active volcano and has been erupting "almost continuously" since January 1983. But the latest lava inflation was out of the ordinary, geologist and Hawaiian Volcano Observatory spokesperson Janet Babb told Live Science.
On May 4, a series of earthquakes, including a 6.9 tremor on Friday, struck the island, followed by more volcanic eruptions. In a statement on Saturday, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said new cracks opened on a highway in the Leilani Estates area of the island, about a dozen miles from where the Kilauea volcano erupted Thursday.
#BREAKING #LeilaniEstatesEruption: First look at the two homes that caught fire after a third eruption broke out at Kaupili Street and Leilani Avenue in the #LeilaniEstates evacuation zone. More details as they develop on @hawaiinewsnow #HInews #HawaiiNews https://t.co/pRQf3zGTue pic.twitter.com/V212PIOUlj
— Mileka Lincoln (@MilekaLincoln) May 4, 2018
Two new fissures opened up Monday.
A map that explains the history of the Big Island of Hawaii volcano eruptions 🌋 #travel pic.twitter.com/55T7VYj3fH
— Judi Riley (@TikiTales) May 6, 2018
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Hawaiians have since shared shocking footage of hot blobs of lava pouring into their residential neighborhoods.
Some of these videos coming out of Hawaii are insane. Here's a blanket of rolling lava eating a car pic.twitter.com/Z2gmgIyZtg
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) May 7, 2018
— Leducd'endoume (@EndoumeLeducd) May 7, 2018
Lava eruptions is #Hawaii over the past few days. Looks like a scene from a movie 😮 pic.twitter.com/8i7fPeMoYe
— UK Weather Live (@UKWeatherLive) May 7, 2018
Unfortunately locking the lava in with a gate doesn't work either.
— WXChasing (@bclemms) May 7, 2018
View our ongoing video coverage of the situation in #Hawaii
Hawaii Kilauea #Volcano 2018
Video Playlist: https://t.co/qCwItY2s42#lava #volcano #Kilauea #KilaueaVolcano #KilaueaErupts #LeilaniEstatesEruption pic.twitter.com/iDtXyPaKQc
The front yard is lava...
— Domenico Calia (@CaliaDomenico) May 6, 2018
Big Island of #Hawaii pic.twitter.com/8w4COYV5WZ
According to NASA, in addition to the "lava-oozing fissures," the eruption also triggered sulfur dioxide plumes, which contributed to the prompt evacuations in the area.
The recent eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano triggered a number of gas and lava-oozing fissures in the East Riff Zone of the volcano, seen by @NASAEarth satellites in space. Here, sulfur dioxide plumes from the new fissures are shown in yellow & green: https://t.co/XrNhVonmEW pic.twitter.com/aO5M3GrYBV
— NASA (@NASA) May 8, 2018
"Everyone knows that it's not over," Hawaii Governor David Ige said, urging everyone in the area to be cautious.
Babb echoed the message, according to CBS affiliate KGMB in Honolulu.
"There's still magma within the rift zone," she said. "In the foreseeable future, this eruption is likely to continue."
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