HILO, Hawai'i — A state senator from Puna has penned a resolution urging the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to update its lava-flow hazard map of Hawai'i Island. San Buenaventura noted the map was last ...

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And although insurers use the lava-zone map to set rates or decide whether or not to insure a property, Hon said that was never the map’s intended purpose. “One of things I told people at the public ...