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I mean, a lot of people are out of work because of this eruption.ĬORNISH: And you're talking about tourism, right? That's just a major part of the economy there. And it's really having a lot of impact on people's livelihoods in terms of work. The gas is gone one day but then the winds shift the next. It's different than a lot of disasters I've been to. You know, the stop-and-go nature of this - you know, the lava, the gas, volcano - it's kind of casting everybody in this sort of perpetual uncertainty. ROTT: Well, there's a definite weariness that I've been picking up on from folks. Lava from one of the fissures is actually creating what's effectively a berm there that's pushing other lava away.ĬORNISH: How are residents holding up at this point? I was told this morning, though, that they believed that plant is now stable. The worry there was that if lava overtook it, a deadly gas, hydrogen sulfide, would be released. There were concerns about a geothermal power plant, which I think a lot of people heard about. It's casting some ash but really not much else of an impact, so most people don't know it. There was actually a smaller eruption here last night, which has been pretty typical over the last few weeks. The main dangers, you know, outside of the obvious lava are gases that are being emitted from the roughly two dozen fissures that have opened up here and different eruptions. A previous one in this area in 1955 went for about three months, so there could be a while yet. Geologist really don't know when the eruption will end. What are some of the dangers now? Like, is there any sense of when this eruption may dissipate? But there are still a lot of dangers they're watching out for over there.ĬORNISH: We've been seeing such footage out of Hawaii the last couple of weeks. The National Guard is bringing some people back there, and residents are allowed to go in to certain areas. Last night, the sky in that direction was burning in this orange glow. You can see gray and white plumes over the horizon to the southwest, but it's a bit cloudy today, so it's hard to get a sense of distance. NATHAN ROTT, BYLINE: So I'm just outside of the town of Pahoa, which is about as close as you can get right now in a town and not feel like you're, you know, right next to a volcano. And, Nate, where are you in relation to this volcano? NPR's Nathan Rott is in Hawaii, and he joins us now. Geologists aren't sure when the eruption will stop.
Rivers of lava are pouring into the ocean, lava fountains are spurting from black cones, and dozens of structures have been destroyed. Dramatic footage keeps coming from the southeast corner of Hawaii's big island, where a long-active volcano is erupting.
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