Aerial Footage Shows New Fissure Erupting Near Leilani Estates

  • 6 years ago
A new fissure opened around 3am on May 13 in Puna, Hawaii, spewing lava hundreds of feet in the air and causing more residents to evacuate the area.According to a local report, the footage captures the seventeenth fissure to form since the first eruption on May 3. The 17th fissure is located about a mile east of Leilani Estates, where the first fissure opened, and has been described as the most voluminous of them all and one of the most difficult to predict. Credit: Mick Kalber via Storyful

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