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Kilauea in Hawaii (from our reading text) was in the news this week! The lava flow from Mount Kilauea inches closer to the village of Pahoa, Hawaii, Oct. 29, 2014. A slow-moving river of molten lava from an erupting volcano crept over residential and farm property on Hawaii's Big Island and threatened dozens of homes at the edge of a former plantation town. The lava flow from the Kilauea volcano has been slogging toward Pahoa for weeks, moving at speeds of 10 to 15 yards an hour as it bubbled over a cemetery and reached the community's outskirts. Click on the photo for the whole article:

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Photo: Reuters

After a vent from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano opened up in June, it sent a thick river of lava on a slow march toward the village of Pahoa on the Big Island's east side. Several months later, the federal government on Monday declared the lava flow to be a major disaster, but to many local residents, such events are just something to abide, like blizzards in the U.S. Northeast or sandstorms in Arizona.

"The lava flow is very unpredictable, but Hawaiians have always lived with volcanoes," Eric Johnson, a teacher at the Hawaii Academy of Arts and Science, located down the road from the lava flow, told Time. Kilauea has erupted continuously from its Pu'u' O'o vent since the 1980s. The sight of glowing lava inching down a hillside hasn't surprised most locals like it would outsiders.

One resident of Pahoa told Time that it wasn't the volcano that worried him, it was the federal government's recent involvement there that made him uneasy. "The lava has been inching forward for 30 years, now the National Guard is here with humvees and flak vests like it's a war zone," he said.

Lava from Kilauea has approached communities before, sometimes with disastrous results. The nearby town of Kalapana was overrun by lava from the volcano in the early 1990s that destroyed and partly buried most of the town.

Despite the latest lava flow having crossed onto a residential property in Pahoa last week, no homes have been destroyed, and officials said the lava flow had slowed by Monday. Residents of about 50 homes were evacuated. Here are several images of Kilauea's latest lava flow near Pahoa.

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Kilauea Volcano: Photos Of Lava Flow In Hawaii Show 'Unpredictable' Side Of Island Life [PHOTOS]

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After a vent from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano opened up in June, it sent a thick river of lava on a slow march toward the village of Pahoa on the Big Island's east side. Several months later, the federal government on Monday declared the lava flow to be a major disaster, but to many local residents, such events are just something to abide, like blizzards in the U.S.

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I did not know that volcanoes can be any time that it will erupt any time that it wants to.

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i learned that volcanoes are very explosive because Mount Saint Helens destroyed itself from erupting and half of the volcano was gone. All the wild life was gone and the trees where black as ash a lot of animals died in that eruption

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more then 75% of volcanoes are active

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I learned that mount st. Helens was releasing steam and ash for two months before the first eruption

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I learned that volcanoes are very dangerous to a lot of people.There are not a lot of explosion in America

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I can't belive that video of the scientist on Mt. Nyiragongo. I would never do that in my life ever! Why were they doing tests on the lava or magma?

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I learned that lava can be very hot, but it can be very slow and it could not even reach people.

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Is ash good for plants? Because I think I heard that it is good for plants somewere. If it is than valcanos could be helpful for that.

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I learned that 75% of the worlds volcanos are in the ring of fire

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I thought it was really cool to see a volcano erupt on video, I also liked learning about Mount St.Hellens it was really interesting I want to continue learning about volcanos because it was really interesting

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I learned

lava from

a volcano

is so hot it

can burn a

chief boyardee

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in 2002 Nyiragongo erupted and destroyed the city of Goma. i thought it was very devastating.

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I was surprised to learn that there are at least 50 active volcanoes in the United States and they are expected to erupt again! (This was on page 76 in our text)