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Several homes at this point, they may never be able to go back to their neighborhoods. and for many of them, that is the most devastating news. >> stephanie elam there. let's turn to our meteorologist pedram javaheri with more on this. pedram, of course we have no idea how long this is going to last. but we do know it has changed the land skype there and people are terrified. >> it is a very scary sight. one way to gauge how long it will play sutout is to look at history. summer 2018 could be plagued by an event like this. so you're living amongst an active volcano. you expect much of the su...

5.0 occurred thursday and then of course the 5.4 and a 6.9 on friday. we'll talk about that one in a second. fissures as natalie pointed out have continued to open up and roads, we're 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, in fact we had a tsunami generated just a few centimeters, not a huge deal, but just to let you kn...

Yesterday. it was only five kilometers deep, but 3.1 miles. that's incredibly shallow. we actually had a minor tsunami with this. we saw the sea surface levels rise about 40 centimeters, give or take, about 15 inches. nothing huge, but it goes to show you the intensity that that earthquake was. most of the other earthquakes have been really small, but coming in clusters. take between monday and thursday of this week, we had about 100 u of them. then you had about 100 just on friday alone. in the last 24 hours, we've had over 350. you can tell the pattern is that they're increasing, especially ...

As an unprecedented event. the incident back in 2014. but that was an above-ground flow. this is under ground. by the way, that steam you see there is not what you want to be breathing in. sulphur dioxide in there. and that can take hold in just a few minutes. like inhaling ammonia if that's ever happened to you by accident. similar conditions and you just run out of breath. your lungs get irritated. look at all the activity. this is a swarm of earthquakes. upwards of 500 earthquakes have been occurring across the eastern part of the big island as a result of the volcano. about 2 1/2 to 3 magn...

Has to come up somewhere. it comes out through those f fissures or through the actual eruption of the volcano. that's where you get lava as well as toxic fumes. that's what we've been seeing around this general vicinity. we talked about the earthquake. stephanie mentioned the magnitude 6.9. only about three miles deep. this did actually trigger a mini tsunami. sea level rise was about 15 inches. nothing dramatic. but the point is this was a large earthquake in association with that volcano. those earthquakes are going to continue. now, the hope is we maintain all the small ones and don't get a...