https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23931850-100-the-tiny-oasis-spared-wrath-of-hawaiis-volcano/

IT LOOKS like a minor miracle. A tiny stretch of road has escaped the lava flows from the latest eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, which is still menacing a corner of Big Island two months after it began.

So frequent are such scenes in a place regularly scorched by volcanic activity that they have a name: kipukas. This example is in Leilani Estates, a community on the south-east coast of the island where many homes have been destroyed since the eruption began on 3 May. The flows pictured here started bubbling up through fissures well away from Kilauea’s main crater, engulfing whole streets and sparking evacuations.