keel away a volcano has been spewing lava into residential areas this is forced hundreds of people to flee their homes aftershocks from a series of earthquakes have also been rumbling across the island the u.s. geological survey measured the largest tremor at magnitude six point nine the strongest since one nine hundred seventy five so far there have been no reports of injuries or major damage earlier we spoke with john tarsa a lava tour guide on the island. so we re on the east side of the big island of hawaii and right now we re going through a period of time where we just went through massive swelling of the volcano and it s starting to release some of the record here in the last couple days what we ve seen here is lots and lots of earthquakes i think in the last three to four days there s been well over a thousand and in the last couple days in particular they ve gotten more intense today they got a little bit were and we got some massive ones like the six point nine that we just