Hawaiin Earthquake

[Oldsarge]

Will all Hawaiian DB members check in, please? The rest of the world is worried about you.

 

[demasoni]

Doing well on Maui, power was restored in about 3 hours. No major damage, just some minor rockslides. The phones are all jammed though, can't make any calls.

I felt the main quake for about 12 seconds or so - a slow and steady shake out of bed and I felt one aftershock. Lots of surfers on the North Shore. No big buildings or developments where I live so nothing really to break.

Hope those DB members on the Big Island are OK.

 

[BatRay]

Yeah my cousins are over there on a cruise at the moment. I hope they're ok too

 

[Bill]

That was some shaker here in Kona. A first for me, 25 years in S. Calif and I never felt a quake while driving before. Felt like both rear tires went flat. There is damage everywhere I look but nothing big. The 'Performance' group is in town (the five that are left) and they went diving OK. Only three of our local group made it today. Anabel is back in form and made a slow 60+ dive with a sore leg. Some rocks rolled down her hillside during the quake.
Aloha
Bill

 

[DSV]

All is OK,

A few small things broke in my house, and I had to restrain myself from running outside naked, but we handled.

It's not as bad as the media is making it out to be here in Kona. There is some structural damage to some of the bigger buildings and a lot of loose rock walls came down, but for the most part just a big clean up project. It's a good thing no fatalities and very few injuries are being reported.

We were due.

DSV

 

[island_sands]

Good to hear you are all ok! Glad to know everyone is safe

 

[Freediver81]

Glad to hear that everyone is ok!

Said

 

[BatRay]

All is OK,

A few small things broke in my house, and I had to restrain myself from running outside naked, but we handled.

It's not as bad as the media is making it out to be here in Kona. There is some structural damage to some of the bigger buildings and a lot of loose rock walls came down, but for the most part just a big clean up project. It's a good thing no fatalities and very few injuries are being reported.

We were due.

DSV

I'm assuming you were naked when the quake took place ?

 

[island_sands]

I'm assuming you were naked when the quake took place ?

that was my fantasy too

 

[Oldsarge]

Hey, it's Hawai'i. The place is so warm and humid that going naked is the
best idea, at least indoors. It all depends on how "decorative" you are. Me? I'm better off covered!

 

[BatRay]

Awesome! Hawaii sounds...interesting.
I was taking a bath during a quake some years, back, but I remembered to wear a towel when I ran outside

 

[Marwan]

i was in class when the earthquake struck in cairo in 1992, so to my misfortune, no naked women , the next year though i was rewarded, it happened in Nowayba (40 KM north of dahab) and i was sleeping on the beach, it was 6 am and they all came out running its funny now, but it very scary at the time, i remember in 1992, i kept circling around the car park ( i was parked on the 9th floor), it took me 2 hours to actually get in my car and go home.they told me later that i must have beat the world record in the long jump as i ran out of class .. but on the beach was a different story, the epicenter was in the water so the sea was actually creeping inland way beyond the shore line in a very fast motion, it was scary..

 

[Oldsarge]

Native Californians don't go run outside naked during a quake, we stand naked in the doorway where it's safe then go back to bed when the shaking stops--Northridge 1994

 

[DSV]

Yeah I'm a So. Cal transplant so I know about big quakes. So guess where I was???? In the doorway watching things fly around the house like poltergeist. The door jam was actually moving in opposite directions in my hands.

DSV

 

[BatRay]

In my situation, I was having a nice bath at a cabin near Santa Cruz. The cabin started rumbling and the bath water started rippling about. The towel-clad exit followed. There are always little quakes going on, but I don't think much about it.

 

[bdurrett]

My folks live in Kona as well and I haven't heard from them yet. It turns out that they were in Colorado for the fall Elk Hunting season. I just hope thay are not TOO shocked when they get home.... Imagine coming home after 2 weeks of being up in the high country and finding out that your house has been shaken AND stirred!

I am sure that my dad will be busy as soon as he gets back since he was the construction superintendant for the new major road that they just finished in Kona.....

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Posted the next day (Thursday - 26 October))

OK, well, my wife got an e-mail last night from my mom after they got home... the grand total of their casualties were 5 coffee mugs, 2 crystal glasses, a large plaster fish, and one tile in the kitchen floor has a crack that didn't used to be there.....All in all, they had very little damage. They own a couple of condos as well (retirement money) and will check on them in the next couple of days......