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Flames and lava. its still a very active volcano, kilowea not only with steam, but look at the tremor activity. 24 or 25 miles away is that east rift. now, the fissures have been really kind of in no organized pattern. theyve been opening some to the southwest, some to the northeast. today was mentioned but its more to the northeast, so you have these two areas of activity. the lava inside the crater is actually feeding the lava underground, so when the fissure is open, its draining the crater o...

5.0 occurred thursday and then of course the 5.4 and a 6.9 on friday. well talk about that one in a second. fissures as natalie pointed out have continued to open up and roads, were monitoring five that are quite active right now. and then additional earthquakes of course will continue. this one was particularly strong, the strongest hawaii has seen since 1975 at a 6.9. as a result of basically a rupture along the fault that runs right underneath the volcano and that is why we had such a force, ...