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Here's a description of the 1960 Kapoho eruption:

During the last week of the year, tiny earthquakes were recorded at the seismograph in Pahoa, some 40 km (25 mi) down the east rift zone from K#299;lauea's summit. After quieting down for a week, more than 1,000 earthquakes were recorded on January 12. HVO seismologists used a portable seismograph to pinpoint the source of the swarm as an area just north of Kapoho village, 47 km from the summit.

The size and frequency of the earthquakes increased sharply in the darkness of early morning on January 13. By daybreak the ground was severely cracked through town, along the trace of the Kapoho fault. The ground shook, and fault ruptures caused loud booming sounds. The roughly 300 residents undertook voluntary evacuation.
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Barriers were built in an attempt to divert lava flows (they didn't work)
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For the first two weeks, Kapoho village remained virtually intact except for a blanket of pumice and ash that covered everything.

You can read the full sequence of events at:
https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kil...apoho.html