Cracks miles away from the volcano — called rifts — burst with lava on Thursday afternoon, burning trees and sending many running from their homes at Leilani Estates on Hawaii’s big island ...

So lava was flowing quite fast,' Halldor Geirsson ... On that occasion, hundreds of tremors damaged buildings and opened up huge cracks in roads. The quakes were followed by a volcanic fissure ...

In a non-explosive eruption, like those that happen at Hawaii's volcanoes, lava fountains or oozes from cracks in the ground. The lava in these types of volcanoes doesn't contain much dissolved ...