17 May 2018

Explosions from Kilauea volcano intensify

From Nine To Noon, 9:29 am on 17 May 2018

A red alert for aviation has been issued for the first time since the latest series of eruptions began 12 days ago. Ash and volcanic debris has risen more than three-and-a-half thousand metres above the volcano's crater and is drifting southwest. Wendy Stovall a volcanologist with the US Geological Survey joins Kathryn with the latest.

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