Hawaii’s geographic location and its high number of volcanic related earthquakes…make all islands vulnerable to both “distant and locally generated” tsunamis. Over the past 70 years 222 lives have been ...
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Information and News Releases
U.S. Pacific Command Detects, Tracks North Korean Missile Launch By CDR David Benham | U.S. Pacific Command | April 04, 2017 CAMP H.M. SMITH, Hawaii — The U.S. Pacific Command ...
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April 1st kicked off Tsunami Awareness Month. April was selected as the month to observe the necessity for tsuanmi awareness because one of Hawaii’s deadliest tsunamis occurred on April 1, ...
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The U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) recorded a magnitude-4.4 earthquake located beneath Kīlauea Volcano’s south flank on Thursday, March 23, at 10:27 a.m., HST. According to the Pacific ...
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Students at Manoa Elementary School were a bit surprised at how devastating a natural hazard can be. They were extremely interested in a presentation on emergency preparedness…given by Kevin Richards, ...
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