Hawaii scientists closely monitoring seismic activity spike at Kilauea volcano

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - For the last week, scientists have been keeping an especially close eye on seismic activity at Kilauea. No eruption is underway, but a big jump in earthquakes over the last several days has experts wondering what could happen next. The latest seismic spike stretches back to last Friday. U.S. Geological Survey Scientist-in-charge Ken Hon says his team tracked 500 earthquakes in the first six hours and since then, there have been over 3,000. “We had field crews out who were reporting rockfalls off of the southside of...