https://phys.org/news/2018-06-volcanologist-view-kilauea.html > Housing developments were built anyway, said Wright during a talk Tuesday at Johns Hopkins University. He had even recently been invited to give a concert with his string quartet in a gated community built along the shore in the hazard zone he had identified decades before. > "Politicians don't want to take land out of circulation," he said. "Hazard maps and land use are always politically fraught."