PAHOA, Hawaii — The Latest on an erupting volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island (all times local):

A Hawaii orchid grower who lives about 3 miles (5 kilometres) down the road from where lava is entering the ocean says nature is reminding everyone who is boss. County officials say the phenomenon sends “hydrochloric acid and steam with fine glass particles into the air.”

The Kilauea volcano has sent oozing lava and noxious gas into neighbourhoods for more than two weeks, burning homes, driving out residents and producing explosive eruptions at the summit. Two lava flows "reached the ocean along the southeast Puna coast overnight," on Hawaii's Big Island, the US Geological Survey, which monitors volcanoes and earthquakes worldwide, said in a statement Sunday. We call that the 'throat-clearing' phase," Carolyn Pearcheta, operational geologist at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, told reporters on a conference call. Parcheta said Kilauea’s eruption has now evolved beyond what she calls its “throat-clearing phase.”

“I think we’re moving into phase two and that’s where we’re going to see increased activity, potentially higher fountains, more lava flows,” Parcheta said, adding that the lava is spreading the length of two to four football fields an hour.
Lava continues spewing from fissures on Kilauea, Hawaii, reaching the Pacific Ocean and critically injuring one person.