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		</div><p>The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted and shot a steam cloud into the atmosphere that lasted about an hour, an official with the National Weather Service has said.</p>
<p>The eruption began late on Sunday within the Halema’uma’u crater, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.</p>
<p>The volcano is located within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.</p>
<p>Tom Birchard, a senior forecaster with the National Weather Service in Hawaii, said a new lava flow interacted with a pool of water inside the crater and that led to a short-lived but fairly vigorous eruption.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">View from the western rim of Kīlauea Caldera. Lava is erupting from a fissure in the NW wall of HalemaÊ»umaÊ»u crater and cascading into the deepest part of the crater, which had been occupied by a water lake (now replaced with a growing lava lake). <a href="https://t.co/VKIFA1Npr0">pic.twitter.com/VKIFA1Npr0</a></p>
<p>&mdash; USGS Volcanoesð (@USGSVolcanoes) <a href="https://twitter.com/USGSVolcanoes/status/1340977787524399106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 21, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>All the water evaporated out of the lake and a steam cloud shot up about 30,000ft into the atmosphere, Mr Birchard said.</p>
<p>An advisory was issued by the National Weather Service in Honolulu, warning of fallen ash from the volcano.</p>
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<p>Excessive exposure to ash is an eye and respiratory irritant, it said.</p>
<p>The agency later said the eruption was easing and a “low-level steam cloud” was lingering in the area.</p>
<p>By 1am local time, USGS officials told Hawaii News Now that there were reported lava fountains shooting about 165ft into the sky.</p>
<p>David Phillips, a Hawaiian Volcano Observatory spokesman, said the agency was monitoring the situation.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">No major changes as of 4:09 a.m. HST. The fountain on the N wall of Halemaʻumaʻu crater is dominant, with weaker fountaining exhibited at W fissures. The lava lake is slowly rising. A billowing gas plume continues to drift to the southwest. <a href="https://t.co/enYj1U9yos">pic.twitter.com/enYj1U9yos</a></p>
<p>&mdash; USGS Volcanoesð (@USGSVolcanoes) <a href="https://twitter.com/USGSVolcanoes/status/1341024997607804928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 21, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>“We will send out further notifications on Kilauea and other Hawaiian volcanoes as we observe changes,” he said.</p>
<p>A magnitude 4.4 earthquake hit about an hour after the volcano began erupting.</p>
<p>The USGS said it received more than 500 reports of people who felt the earthquake but significant damage to buildings or structures was not expected.</p>
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<p>Kilauea erupted in 2018, destroying more than 700 homes and spewing enough lava to fill 320,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.</p>
<p>An area more than half the size of Manhattan was buried in up to 80ft of now-hardened lava.</p>
<p>The lava flowed over the course of four months.</p>
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