2010 Kalapana Lava Disaster
Disaster: Lava
Photographer: Bruce Omori/EPA
Year: 2010
Location: Kalapana, Hawaii, United States
Lava has been slowly oozing through Kalapana, Hawaii, for about thirty years. Its residents choose to live there in full awareness that one day, their house will be engulfed in flames, like this one was in 2010.