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The town of Volcano is swaying, back and forth.

“It’s been rocking and rolling,” Bobby Camara, a Volcano resident who spent decades working as a ranger at the nearby Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, said from his Big Island home. 

Though the tremors are mild, they still cause the lamps in Camara’s house to gently swing. 

“You feel like you’re drunk or on a boat — the quakes are quite subtle," Camara said.

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