Sputtering lava, strong earthquakes and toxic gas jolted the southern part of the Big Island of Hawaii as magma shifted underneath a restless Kilauea volcano.
The trifecta of natural threats forced stressed-out residents to evacuate and prompted the closure of parks and college campuses yesterday.
Multiple new vents, from which lava is spurting out of the ground, formed in the same residential neighbourhood where molten rock first emerged Thursday.
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At midday, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck – the biggest of hundreds of quakes this week and the largest to strike the state in 43 years. Residents were also warned to watch out for dangerous levels of sulphuric gas.
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory spokeswoman Janet Babb reported that the earthquakes reflected the volcano adjusting to the shifting magma.
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