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Hawaii Neighborhoods All but Vanish Under Lava

A neighborhood called Vacationland on Hawaii’s Big Island disappeared by Wednesday as lava poured into two oceanfront subdivisions, smothering hundreds of homes and filling an ocean bay, turning it into new land that juts into the sea. Molten rock entirely covered Vacationland and only a few buildings remained in the nearby Kapoho subdivision, officials with the U.S. Geological Survey said. “The bay is completely filled in and the shoreline is at least 0.8 miles out from its original...

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