Hawai'i has been hit by a STRONG quake on the big island's west coast.

Lots of damage, no power on 95% of island.

Quake centered just off shore near Kailua, between Kailua and Waimea?

A big chunk of one of the cliffs seems to have broken of and fallen into the water?

See CNN or MSNBC or whatever for details.

Since power is out, it will probably be a while before we can get word that all our folks there are OK.

Doubtful that any of the internet service is up...

Tomas

 

Quake was at about 0707 AM local.

Currently there is a run on gas stations and grocery stores on the island.

Phone system appears to still be working, but under severe load.

Airliners NOT taking off from airport, but those in air are being allowed to land.

One of the hospitals is being evacuated because of damage.

Many buildings damaged, some roads damaged.

No tsunami expected.

Aftershocks continue to hit.

Many injuries - no reported deaths reported yet.

Some landslides.

Some bridges damaged.

Tomas

 

 

remember tom that the phone company have there own power supply and back up diesel generater and a few massive banks of batteries

 

(After spending 25 years as a 'phone company engineer and knowing the power plants intimately, yes, I know they can often keep running without commercial power, but earthquakes damage both equipment and CABLES, and there are often assorted outages because of that. Right now the biggest problem on the islands for the telcos is waaaaaayyyyy too much load from everyone trying to make calls. They are asking that people NOT use phones right now unless it is an emergency and help is needed.)

 

I just read this online. Actually came on here to start a thread on it lol.

Hopefully our fellow Scion owners in Hawaii can check in and let us know whats going on over there.

If you guys can get pics please do.

Stay safe.

 

Probably caused by an underwater nuclear bomb test.

 

lol.....who set it off? The "others"?

 

Xenu!

Tomas

 

wow i hope everyone is ok!

 

Don't seem to have ANY posts from our Hawai'i members since the quake(s), so we know nothing for certain, yet. Hopefully they came through fine.

Tomas

 

Man, hope everyone's ok. I remember when we got an earthquake. Our magnitude was 8.3 or so back in 1993. The days of no power and water was no joke at all...

 

talked to my parents about 130-2pm pdt (10-11ish hst) power was out.. dad said he was watching the seahawks game and just after the rams scored first power went out.....
they live in ewa beach, s/w coast of oahu (same island as honolulu& pearl harbor)
said that at least for him it was just rattling of glasses and pictures ect.. nothin damaged there (not counting a random glass or something like that)

per a post on SE power came on about 830ish pm hst 12hrs later

as for the phone stuff... yeah.. we phone co's have back up generators and batteries and stuff.... but for one reason or another... they arent always fully charged/fueld etc :lala:

 

i got pwer back around 11:15pm last night...meaning i had no power from 7:30AM ish to 11:15PM.

 

Glad to hear from our folks over there, finally.

Hopefully everyone's OK and personal damages are minimal.

Take care,
Tomas

 

yeah.. i've seen posts ranging from 12hrs - 18hrs or more before power came back...