Roads ripped up by rumbling Big Island Hawaii volcano

Roads and buildings have been damaged by earthquakes caused by an erupting volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island.Rocks the size of microwave ovens have been shooting out of the Kilauea volcano in the biggest eruptions for almost a century.
Boys look on from a golf course as an ash plume rises in the distance
Because the crater’s lava levels have been falling, stress faults around it have been moving – causing a series of earthquakes, one of them with a magnitude of 4.4.


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