--- title: Hawaii Volcano Eruption Caught on Time Lapse Video description: Watch a car and telephone pole get consumed by a massive lava flow after the Kilauea volcano eruption in Hawaii last week. canonical: https://time.com/5267894/hawaii-lava-flow-video/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-07T16:06:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T09:08:52.467Z og:title: Time Lapse Video Shows Hawaii Lava Consume a Car og:description: This is gripping og:url: https://time.com/5267894/hawaii-lava-flow-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd53984a723e4a09/69892fb54ee2622088311b88/kilauea-volcano-eruption.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3831 og:image:height: 2155 og:image:alt: Hundreds Forced To Evacuate After Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Erupts og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Time Lapse Video Shows Hawaii Lava Consume a Car twitter:description: This is gripping twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd53984a723e4a09/69892fb54ee2622088311b88/kilauea-volcano-eruption.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Time Lapse Video Shows Hawaii Lava Flow Totally Consuming a Car > Sponsored content. 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Here's the Latest on the 2018 Kilauea Eruption [Watch (HLS stream): Hawaii's Most Active Volcano Causes Mass Evacuations. Here's the Latest on the 2018 Kilauea Eruption](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/NgqhdzC6.m3u8) (1:34)  _Published 2018-05-04. Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted Thursday evening forcing 1,500 people to evacuate the area_  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 7, 2018 4:06 PM UTC Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted Thursday evening forcing 1,500 people to evacuate the area  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 7, 2018 4:06 PM UTC Hawaii’s Big Island is dealing with the aftermath of [the eruption of the Kilauea volcano](http://time.com/5265512/kilauea-hawaii-volcano-eruption-latest/) and a 6.9 magnitude earthquake on May 4\. Leilani Estates, one of the properties hit hardest, lost 26 homes to the encroaching lava, while [“hazardous fumes”](https://twitter.com/CivilDefenseHI/status/992983133384404992) continue to pollute the air. Now we’re beginning to see video of the lava flows as they happened — like this one, taken by a time lapse camera on the Leilani Estates properties, according to a storm-watching [social media account.](https://twitter.com/bclemms) In the video, you can see the steaming lava emerging from the underbrush, fully covering the road, and ultimately consuming a parked car that was, unfortunately, not moved. Another cut in the video shows a telephone pole going down as the lava continues to smolder, air filled with smoke. The lava has so far covered about nine acres of land in the Leilani Estates residential area, while the earthquakes opened up several new fissures that are emitting fumes. About 1,700 people were under evacuation orders. As of Sunday night, evacuations for Leilani Estates remained in place, with the [County of Hawaii latest alert noting](http://www.hawaiicounty.gov/active-alerts) that “active venting of lava and hazardous fumes” are still a problem. > [](https://twitter.com/bclemms/status/993334431883677696) ## Transcript [00:00] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [00:07] Let's [00:14] go [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [00:19] Excuse me. Okay, I'm sorry. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [00:21] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ SOUND ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [00:49] [ NOISE ]. We just had a huge earthquake and now in [00:52] the direction of, there's a massive cloud of smoke [00:56] coming up. [ NOISE ]. 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