My goodness - I was in Hawaii 2 weeks after the 1983 quake and I don't recall anyone even mentioning it, other than my mother teasing my dad about his wishing for one, or better yet, a volcano eruption.
We went there right after Thanksgiving for two weeks, but never went to the Big Island, only to Oahu and Maui. My dad was a geologist, so we did all the craters we could, and drove up Haleakala. He and she had been to all those on Hawaii several times before, but I hadn't and have not been there since then.
How strange that no one was talking about one as big as that one was. I don't even remember feeling any small shocks or anything in the time I was there. Golly, I'd have freaked, not knowing anything about them or expecting one!
I wish we could squeeze Maui in this trip. we were just gonna do a week on Hawaii but then decided to do Oahu as well.
My m-i-l was born on Hawaii and wifey and sibs on
Oahu,, we haven't been back in a few years,
I enjoy checking out the volcanos as well, Haleakala was fun..