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This week Dr. Meen returned from a quick air visit to the lake and reported that it was almost certainly a meteorite crater (there was no lava or other sign of volcanic activity), and the biggest yet discovered. The lake in the crater (still frozen at the end of July) is 2½ miles across, compared with Arizona's famed meteorite crater, which is four-fifths of a mile across. Its level is about 80 feet above that of other small lakes in the vicinity, and around it is a ring of shattered granite that rises 550 feet above...
...ranch house, Mrs. John Carroll thought it was just an unusually bright Hawaiian moon, pulled the shades and went back to bed. Soon she awoke again, to the sound of a dull, menacing rumble. She fled in her nightdress, just before the stream of red-orange lava hit her house...
...miles away. Not from the crater, where it usually erupts, but out of the southwest flank of the mountain melted rock burst and shot 300 ft. up; steam shot higher to 20,000 ft., striking a passing plane. Through two other vents in the slope, streams of glowing lava oozed out, surged 25 miles...
Thanks largely to the efforts of two Hawaiian boys who ran from house to house alerting the residents, and to motorists and Coast Guardsmen who rescued them, no one was caught in the stream of lava. It swept over patches of taro root and through upland ranches firing houses, a church, a post office, trees and telephone poles, cutting communications. The lava piled ten feet high on the main coastal highway...
...stream of lava boiled through the fishing village of Pahoehoe to the sea cliff, dropped 100 ft., steaming and hissing into the water. At week's end the lava still flowed. It would probably be the biggest outpouring from, the world's biggest volcano in the past 70 years...