[meteorite-list] Earthquake in HI

[Michael Farmer]

Tracy, good luck and I am glad everyone seems to be
ok. 
I have been reading on the net the first reports. That
is a pretty big quake isnt it?
Mike Farmer

--- tracy latimer <daistiho at hotmail.com> wrote:

> WE got jolted out of bed this morning at 7:08 by
> what they are now reporting 
> as a 6.3 magnitude earthquake, about 18 miles from
> Kailua-Kona on the Big 
> Island.  There was another quake about 7 minutes
> afterwards, about 5.8, and 
> 18 or so aftershocks so far, mostly too small for us
> to feel here.
> 
> Some things fell off of shelves here in Maui
> (Kihei), minor structural 
> damage in some places, and there are landslides on
> some roads.  Big Island, 
> closer to the epicenter has sinkholes, landslides,
> and they are reporting 
> that a couple of the big box stores had ceiling
> collapses.  We were prepared 
> to bug out if a tsunami was forecast, but none
> resulted.  We were without 
> power until about 10 minutes ago while the electric
> companies reset and 
> tested all the breakers that had flipped; most of
> the Hawaiian Islands had 
> no power for at least a while.  We blew at least one
> UPS at home, and are 
> testing our computers.  Reports are still coming in
> about damage across the 
> islands.  Only minor injuries have been reported.
> 
> WE can report largely shaken, but not stirred, and I
> am going to go make our 
> first batch of caffeine for the day -- we need it!
> 
> Tracy Latimer
> 
> 
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