Tohoku-Oki Tsunami in Hawaii: A Report from the Field
A neighbor of mine returned this week from a vacation in Maui, Hawaii. She sent me this description:
"We were in Maui when the earthquake in Japan hit. We were evacuated from our condo on the coast. When we returned 6 hours later, we found that the ground floor units had flooded. We were on the 2nd floor. Also very interesting was watching the ocean as at times the ocean was 300 feet or so back from normal, then it would be at normal distance but calm. It took a while until the ocean began to look like normal. I can't imagine being in Japan....how awful for them."
About OpenHazards Bloggers
Steven Ward is a Research Geophysicist at
the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UC Santa Cruz. He specializes in the quantification and simulation of
natural hazards. Read Steve's blog.
John Rundle is a Distinguished Professor of Physics
and Geology at UC Davis and
the Executive Director of the APEC Collaboration for Earthquake Simulations. He
chaired the Board of Advisors for the Southern California Earthquake Center from 1994 to 1996. Read John's blog.