[meteorite-list] Earthquake in HI

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Oct 16 18:59:35 2006
Message-ID: <20061015203313.6818.qmail_at_web33111.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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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