Wondering what a tsunami could do to our coast? After the recent tsunami alert, I went looking for some history. It didn’t take long to find a couple of photos. The top photo shows a tsunami washing ashore on Laie Point in 1957 following an earthquake in the Aleutian Islands. [credit: NOAA/NGDC/Henry Helbush] The second [...]
Thanks to Aaron Stene (The Kona Blog) for calling attention to this video of the tsunami action in Kailua-Kona. The guy with the camera was very, very lucky, wasn’t he? And thanks to Civil Beat’s Sara Lin for pushing the governor’s office on the firing of OIP Acting Director Cathy Takase and the apparently improper [...]
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The students at Kaaawa Elementary School hold regular tsunami drills where they walk from the school to the upper part of Kaaawa up by our house, safely out of the tsunami inundation zone. Many Kaaawa residents did the same thing today, driving up and setting up camp along Olohu Road with their kids, dogs, cats, [...]
