Posted on 10/15/2006 10:34:29 AM PDT by colorcountry
Hi All,
We landed in Honolulu at @ 12:00 pm yesterday and waited 3 hours in the plane for the stairs to arrive so we could climb down.
Power was restored here in Waimanalo at 12:30 am the next day (this morning).
Our son was home when the first quake hit. He said the house was really rocking and rolling.
So glad there were no fatalities.
I'll bet that makes all the older folks who were on the 15th floor of the Halekulani happy....(and the hotel staffs, that undoubtedly did a whole lot of stair climbing with meals, etc.)
Glad to hear ya'll are ok.
Wonderful news that there was no fatalities.
Just was whining the day prior about hitting my head on the aspault when the Labs got excited about seeing a freind (another Lab) on our morning walk.
Then the quakes hit the Island and humbled me.
Ahole is the name of the town right?
I had to see who's post you were responding to to figure out that you were not calling the poster a bad name. : )
I caught Hillary on the news snip yesterday verbally putting President Bush in the cauldron and boiling him over the N.Korea issues.
The cloven hoofed woman is nasty as ever.
Hmmmm Rhoiders shows it on land.
LOL! Haven't been in Honolulu traffic lately, have you? :o)
Correct.
Hawaii Quake Blame on Volcanic Stress
Oct 16 2:56 PM US/Eastern
By ALICIA CHANG
AP Science Writer
Hawaii's Big Island is rattled by thousands of minor earthquakes a
year, mainly from volcanic eruptions.
But the strongest and most destructive types _ like Sunday's magnitude-6.7 that caused blackouts and landslides _ are rare and are caused not by eruptions, but by the buildup of stress deep in the crust as volcanoes grow and spread, experts say.
The Big Island is the youngest in a ring of volcanoes stretching some 3,500 miles across the Pacific Ocean. As new island volcanoes form and old ones are carried away, the process can sometimes release pent-up pressure in the form of quakes.
"If you think of it as piling up more and more dirt, it's eventually going to slide," said seismologist Kate Hutton of the California Institute of Technology.
The Big Island is commonly rocked by quakes in the 3- and 4-magnitude range that are triggered by volcanic eruptions. Prior to Sunday's shaker, volcanic activity in the area had been relatively quiet, according to the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
That graphic looked kind of nnu to me too.
Looks like reuters doesn't know its NNE from its NNW.
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and there was a "tsunami" , well, sort of..
Upon review, quake generates four-inch tsunami
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Oct/16/br/br2659183047.html
Advertiser Staff
Sunday's 6.7-magnitude earthquake generated a 4-inch tsunami that was measured by Kawaihae Harbor's tide gauge at 7:17 a.m., according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
Despite the strength of the 7:07 a.m. quake and a subsequent 6.0 quake that hit at 7:14 a.m., both events were so deep that only the larger quake altered the ocean floor enough to generate a "tsunami," said Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.
Kawaihae Harbor's tide gauge was the only one in the Islands to measure the tsunami, Fryer said.
nnu = funny
An unidentified man walks past the Kalahikiola Congregational Church in Kapaau, Hawaii, after the church was damaged by an earthquake Monday, Oct. 16, 2006. (AP Photo/Agustin Tabares)
They were staying at the Fairmont in Maui. They just got back today to the states . Driving to the airport in Maui felt like driving through a monsoon though yesterday they said.
BTTT
Looks like there's still a lot of minor activity going on.
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