President Barrack Obama signed a Major Disaster Declaration for Maui County on October 6, 2016. The declaration makes federal funding available to state and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for assistance for emergency work and the repair or replacement of disaster-damaged facilities damaged by severe storms, flooding, landslides ...
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Characterizing earthquakes is one of the most important activities we do at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO). Seismicity helps us monitor the “pulse” of volcanoes and can be a first indication of an impending eruption. Earthquakes also pose a hazard in their own right, and the entire State of Hawaii is at risk from ...
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Effective: September 13, 2016 through November 14, 2016 Emergency Proclamation Storm Maui Kalawao.pdf OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR STATE OF HAWAIʻI PROCLAMATION By the authority vested in me as Governor by the Constitution and laws of the State of Hawaiʻi, in order to provide relief for disaster damages, losses, and suffering, and to protect the health, safety, and welfare ...
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Effective: September 10, 2016 through November 9, 2016 Supplementary Proclamation for Hurricanes Madeline and Lester PDF OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR STATE OF HAWAII SUPPLEMENTARY PROCLAMATION By the authority vested in me as Governor by the Constitution and laws of the State of Hawai’i, in order to provide relief for disaster damages, losses, and suffering, and to protect ...
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Effective: August 31, 2016 through September 9, 2016 Madeline and Lester Proclamation PDF OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR STATE OF HAWAII PROCLAMATION By the authority vested in me as Governor by the Constitution and laws of the State of Hawaii, in order to provide relief for disaster damages, losses, and suffering, and to protect the ...
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