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PHOTOS: Lahaina brush fire prompts evacuations

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Hurricane Lane was downsized to a Category 3 storm Thursday night, but it has still managed to dump 30 inches of rain on Hawaii's major islands.

The Category 4 hurricane is expected to reach the Hawaiian islands Thursday.

Half of the Aloha State is under hurricane warning with the approach of Hurricane Lane, a Category 4 storm with winds up to 156 miles per hour. Lane had even reached Category 5—the highest ranking on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale—late Tuesday

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A basketball-sized lava bomb slammed through the roof of a tour boat near an active fissure of the Hawaiian volcano early Monday morning, showering the vessel with debris.

For the seventh time in eight days, an explosion at the Kilauea summit on Hawaii's Big Island erupted Thursday morning with a force equivalent to an earthquake of magnitude 5.3 or higher, according to the US Geological Survey.

The shaking is near constant. And sometimes it's severe.

A neighborhood called Vacationland on Hawaii's Big Island had disappeared by Wednesday as lava poured into two oceanfront subdivisions, smothering hundreds of homes and filling an ocean bay, turning it into new land that now juts into the sea.

An explosive eruption at Hawaii's Klauea volcano has sent a plume of ash 4,500 metres into the air, the U.S. Geological Survey says.

Lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is approaching the ocean, and the Hawaii Volcano Observatory is warning of a new danger if the two meet.

The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island erupted last Thursday and has shown no signs of stopping. Two NASA astronauts onboard the International Space Station earlier this week snapped some dramatic photos of the ash plumes.

The Kilauea eruption continued its journey across Lower Puna on Sunday as two new fissures opened, destroying one structure and shooting molten rock hundreds of feet into the air.

A man who lives near the large volcanic fissure that opened up Sunday and spewed lava near Halekamahina Loop Road in lower Puna called the event "absolutely deafening."

The steady lowering of the Kilauea lava lake means the potential of "explosive eruptions" near the summit is increasing, the U.S. Geological Survey says.

There is no need to cancel a Hawaiian vacation. Simply check online air quality information as you travel, an expert advises.

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been a constant threat since the current eruption began in 1983. But things just got real, with a series of earthquakes and new fiery fissures, sending residents for shelter.

The number of homes destroyed by Hawaii's Kilauea volcano jumped to 21 Sunday as scientists reported lava spewing more than 200 feet (61 meters) into the air.

PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — Sputtering lava, strong earthquakes and toxic gas jolted the southern part of the Big Island of Hawaii as magma shifted underneath a restless Kilauea volcano.