Hawaii quake

[GreatCarouser]

Hope GCR is ok and everything isn't too bad on the islands.

[Giant Communist Robot]

Thank you; everyone ok.

Just got the power back on a few minutes ago; about 7 hours without electricity. I was downtown at the Convention Center when it hit--the building was shaking so hard I had to grab a railing.

Most places here do not have natural gas, they use electric ranges. Lots of people could not cook. No phones for several hours, either.

Looks normal now.

[navneeth]

Wow! I took a peek at Google Earth - the island is dotted with quakes! Glad you're OK.

[Shapley]

GCR,

Glad to hear you're okay. The news reports that there have been no deaths reported, so that is a blessing. Take care!

V/R
Shapley

[barfle]

In a former life, I travelled a lot on business, and one of my regular destinations was Honolulu (of which Aiea is a suburb). Being from southern California where I was quite familiar with earthquakes, and recognizing that Hawaii was volcanic in origin, I asked some of the locals about earthquakes. They said they didn't get them, so I quit worrying about the double-deck freeway from downtown to the airport.

I guess it fared OK, but if they had used similar construction on the big island...

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

... I asked some of the locals about earthquakes. They said they didn't get them...

Eh?!? Wazzat?!?

There were earthquakes when my folks lived in Hawaii (I was there too, but not paying attention to such things.) Those islands are the tops of great, big, tall, fairly active volcanos, and such places get earthquakes.

I know I've told this story before but here it goes again. Quite some time ago there was a fairly strong earthquake that we must have been fairly close to the epicenter of, because there were all three shocks. The vertical jolts, followed by the sharp horizontal shocks and then after a little space the rolling waves came through. By the time the waves arrived, there were three of us standing barefoot in our nighties in the middle of the street holding our respective babies - me, the lady from Japan, and the lady from Hawaii. All of us had grown up in earthquake country, and all of us had the exact same response to a tremor: snatch the baby and get out of the house. (We also all felt somewhat foolish to have awakened in the street, barefoot in our nighties holding babies) About the time the rest of the neighborhood was asking "Is everyone all right? Did anything fall?" we went back in.

I called the sister-in-law in Hali'ewa, she and the nieces in Mililani are OK but the nieces wish they had gas stoves instead of electric.

[Shapley]

I called the sister-in-law in Hali'ewa, she and the nieces in Mililani are OK but the nieces wish they had gas stoves instead of electric.

So they can have explosions and gas fires? Tell them to buy a propone cooker for the back patio.

V/R
Shapley

[barfle]

Eh?!? Wazzat?!?

There were earthquakes when my folks lived in Hawaii (I was there too, but not paying attention to such things.) Those islands are the tops of great, big, tall, fairly active volcanos, and such places get earthquakes.

I'm reasonably familiar with the volcanism of the islands, but as far as active volcanoes go, I couldn't find one on Oahu. So we're a few hundred miles away from the nearest active volcano, and that keeps flowing lava, and seems to this non-geologist-but-graduate-engineer type that it just might keep the forces from building up, and that someone who lived there for thirty years or so would know if he'd been through an earthquake or not.

Not many volcanoes in Orange County, so that threw a new variable into the equation for me. And, yes, I do know about the Cascades.