My son just called from North Shore of Oahu and told us he felt the quake at 7:07 AM there. It registered 4.6 and the epicenter was on the Big Island, close to Hilo.
tsunami ?
The libs will cheer. It's Katrina all over again!
(AP) HONOLULU An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck Hawaii early Sunday morning, waking up residents and knocking out power.
The U.S. Geological Survey also reported several aftershocks, including one measuring a magnitude of 5.8. No damage reports were immediately available.
The quake occurred at 7:07 a.m. local time, 10 miles north-northwest of Kailua Kona, a town on the west coast of the Big Island, said Don Blakeman, a geophysicist at the National Earthquake Information Center, part of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Blakeman said researchers were still trying to ascertain how many aftershocks struck and how large.
Blakeman said there was no risk of a Pacific-wide tsunami, but a possibility of significant wave activity in Hawaii.
The quake occurred about 155 miles to the southeast of Honolulu, the state capital, in Oahu.
Does anybody know the where abouts of Karl Rove? Certainly he was behind this to shift the national attention away from the Foley nonsense.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/HI2/19.21.-157.-155.php
shows two majors, just NNW of the coast, 150 miles from Honolulu. Lots of aftershocks. The big island is going to be a mess.
Spoke to my mom, South side of Oahu (Waikiki, Manoa, etc) is blacked out, noi phones, cellular is working.
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Prayers going up for Hawaii Islands and all its citizens!!
Be safe!!
MAP 5.8 2006/10/15 17:14:09 19.946 -156.157 4.6 29 km ( 18 mi) NNW of Kalaoa, HI
MAP 6.3 2006/10/15 17:07:48 19.842 -156.059 24.0 14 km ( 9 mi) NNW of Kalaoa, HI
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/HI2/19.21.-157.-155_eqs.php
Epicenter Maximum No of Date Location Intensity Mag Deaths Damage
03 28 1868 Southern Hawaii IX 7.0 0 Extensive-Southern Hawaii. 04 02 1868 Southern Hawaii XII 7.9 81 >100 houses destroyed, tsunami 10 05 1929 Hualalai VIII 6.5 0 Extensive-Kona 08 21 1951 Kona VIII 6.9 0 Extensive-Kona 04 26 1973 North of Hilo VIII 6.2 0 Extensive-Hilo, $5.6M 11 29 1975 Kalapana feature VIII 7.2 2 Extensive-Hilo, $4.1M 11 16 1983 Kaoiki IX 6.7 0 Extensive-Southern Hawaii, >$6M 06 25 1989 Kalapana VII 6.2 0 Southeast Hawaii almost $1M
My brother lives in Hilo. Just heard from him and he and his wife are fine, there cats are freaking out, though. He said it was the strongest one he felt there.
A nanosecond is the amount of time it takes between a natural disaster and a moonbat lib to blame it on Bush.
Felt a sustained shaking but no TV's breaking or anything.
Apparently Kona (on the other side of the island) got it worse.
We felt one aftershock. I had been thinking a couple of days ago that we were in for a quake because we haven't had one for awhile. Usually we get a bit of a shake every month or so. Perhaps the pressure has been building up; thus the larger quake this morning.
Hope that's the end.
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WE had a 6.5 here on the central coast of CA in 2003....we know how the folks in the 50th state feel right now..nerves on edge...
Lesson learned here for all of us...prepare emergency kits for your homes and one for the cars..you never know when something will hit like this..We took a course a year ago and it was enlightening. There was so much one doesn't think about until it is too late...The Red Cross has tips for this too.
6.3 in Hawaii
I guess it probably won't be affected unless there are aftershocks.
My brother lives in Honolulu, all the circuits are busy everytime I try to call.