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The smell of toxic sulphur dioxide and burning trees hanging in the air. >> all around is a sulphur smell. i think we're one street over from the lava right now. >> reporter: officials say the air quality is an immediate threat to life. the governor declaring a state of emergency. >> it's a difficult thing to watch. the lava flow is unpredictable. not exactly certain what course it will take. >> reporter: thursday's eruption came hours after a 5.0 earthquake jolted the big island. on monday, one of the craters collapsed, triggering at least 600 smaller quakes. >> stunning imaging coming in ton...

Miguel marquez has the details. unbelievable that this is going on and on and on. you saw the lava coming down just a regular street there. >> yeah, it is terrifying to see that. keep in mind this is a lava too that opened up miles away from the kiluawa core. this is the most active of the volcanos on the big island. so far two places have been evacuated. lower puna is also under threat because they're not quite sure what that lava is going to do. the national guard is on hand, the civil defense for hawaii is on hand. all of this started earlier in the week. there were hundreds of volcanos and...

Yeah. we move from california to get away from forest fires. >> adam housley from our west coast bureau now with more. adam? >> yeah, john. the pictures are spectacular. this latest volcanic activity has continued on. about 200 earthquakes have been going on over the last few days, including one of them, a 5.0, a precursor to the volcanic activity. the eruption has been allowed to spew ash and lava. lava poured out of the streets. 1,500 people live. lava fountains shooting 150 feet in the air. the molten lava spread out about 200 yards behind one house in particular. scientists said there's no...

Weather pattern from record lows to record highs. >> nice like stretch of 70 degrees and sunny would be nice. >> that would be great. >> san diego. >> yeah. so this is pretty terrifying. authorities in hawaii have ordered mandatory evacuations in the wake of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. after a weak of seismic activity lava started flowing from the kilauea volcano yesterday six hours after a 5.0 magnitude earthquake shook the island. authorities say the national guard has been activated as lava is threatening homes, while the hawaii fire department reports extremely high levels of dan...

Channel islands here. so a 5.3. trace gallagher, did you feel it out there? >> we felt it good. lasted about ten seconds or so. felt like a good earthquake. 5.0 is what it first came out of the usgs and upgraded to 5.3. if you drew a line off the coast of malibu, that's where it was. nine miles deep. not really deep but not really shallow. the depth is important. the deeper they are, the more widespread they are felt. the shallower they are, the more damage they cause. this was felt not only here. we're on the east side of santa monica, about four miles from the coast. we felt it good here but...