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Hawaii, May 2018: a new fissure opens on Kilauea's lower East Rift Zone, beginning with small spatters of lava.

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In Pictures: When the Earth Opens Up

New fissures in a Hawaiian neighbourhood and a night fountain of lava on Etna. Four images from the edge of an eruption.

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In May 2018 the ground split open in Leilani Estates, on the lower East Rift Zone of Kilauea. Over the following months lava from more than twenty fissures covered homes and roads and reached the sea.

Half a world away, Mount Etna in Sicily erupts so often that the towns on its slopes plan around it. These pictures show both volcanoes at work.

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