{"id":78347,"date":"2018-05-04T14:22:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T21:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-erupts-flooding-streets-with-lava-destroying-2-homes"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:12:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T18:12:11","slug":"hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-erupts-flooding-streets-with-lava-destroying-2-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-erupts-flooding-streets-with-lava-destroying-2-homes","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii\u2019s Kilauea Volcano Erupts, Flooding Streets With Lava, Destroying 2 Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-erupts-flooding-streets-with-lava-destroying-2-homes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The scene in a normally quiet neighborhood on Hawaii\u2019s Big Island is like something out of an overwrought disaster movie: volcanic fissures have opened up, spraying smoke and hot lava in the air where just last week there was a road and people\u2019s backyards.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/evacuations-ordered-hawaii-volcano-erupts\/story?id=54927569\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/evacuations-ordered-hawaii-volcano-erupts\/story?id=54927569\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim told reporters<\/a> that two homes have been destroyed by the lava.<\/p>\n<p>Eruptions began in the rift zone to the east of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/davidbressan\/2017\/02\/07\/hawaiian-myths-tell-a-story-about-volcanic-activity-at-kilauea\/\" target=\"_self\">Kilauea volcano<\/a> Thursday, prompting evacuations of the Leilani Estates and Lanipuna Gardens subdivisions in Puna on the island\u2019s southeastern corner.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ericmack\/2018\/05\/04\/hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-erupts-opening-fissures-and-flooding-streets-with-lava\/\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ericmack\/2018\/05\/04\/hawaiis-kil...with-lava\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scene in a normally quiet neighborhood on Hawaii\u2019s Big Island is like something out of an overwrought disaster movie: volcanic fissures have opened up, spraying smoke and hot lava in the air where just last week there was a road and people\u2019s backyards. On Friday morning, Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim told reporters that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78536,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78347\/revisions\/78536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}