6.7
7:07am...a 6.7 earthquake wakes up the Aloha State (and me).
Thank goodness it happened on an early Sunday morning. Lots and lots of damage on the Big Island with many landslides, damaged buildings and homes, toppled down stone walls, and cracked earth. But most of all...no serious injuries or death directly caused by the earthquake.
On Oahu, there was an ENTIRE island blackout. 291,000 customers with no electricity...18 hours for us. Now, I can understand that HECO had to shut everything down to protect the system...but what I cannot accept is the ridiculously slow effort in getting ANY information out to the public. Even if just to say that they have experienced a major island wide shut down and to be patient as information will be forthcoming asap. In fact, it took over 3 hours for any HECO person to get on the air at about 10:30am...WAY slower than should be. And even after that, the information was not well done IMO and mediocre as best. Shape up HECO!
There was also NO or VERY LIMITED cellular service from T-Mobile. Gotta look into changing service as I heard that Nextel was working fine!
On this page KITV News Article, check out the "viewer images" for lots of pictures of what happend.
Thank goodness it happened on an early Sunday morning. Lots and lots of damage on the Big Island with many landslides, damaged buildings and homes, toppled down stone walls, and cracked earth. But most of all...no serious injuries or death directly caused by the earthquake.
On Oahu, there was an ENTIRE island blackout. 291,000 customers with no electricity...18 hours for us. Now, I can understand that HECO had to shut everything down to protect the system...but what I cannot accept is the ridiculously slow effort in getting ANY information out to the public. Even if just to say that they have experienced a major island wide shut down and to be patient as information will be forthcoming asap. In fact, it took over 3 hours for any HECO person to get on the air at about 10:30am...WAY slower than should be. And even after that, the information was not well done IMO and mediocre as best. Shape up HECO!
There was also NO or VERY LIMITED cellular service from T-Mobile. Gotta look into changing service as I heard that Nextel was working fine!
On this page KITV News Article, check out the "viewer images" for lots of pictures of what happend.
posted by dancedream2002 @ 10:05 PM
2 Comments:
At 6:03 AM, October 17, 2006,
Anonymous said…
The news about the earthquake made the headlines here in Japan, since Hawaii is a special place to the Japanese.
Seems recovery is taking longer than expected. Since Hawaii sits atop a volcano, I had expected Hawaii is somewhat used to earthquakes. Isn't that the situation ?
Hope things are returning to normal by now.
At 1:09 PM, October 17, 2006,
Anonymous said…
Hey Ats...
Everything is fine here on Oahu, but can't say the same for the Big Island and Maui, both were closer to the epicenter of the quake.
Although we do sit upon a volcano, we hardly get any BIG ones (say 4.0 or higher) since we are only on a "hot spot" in the middle of the Pacific Plate. Though, the movement of magma causes a lot of micro-quakes that we never feel.
Unlike...you folks in Japan who sit on the edge of the Pacific Plate (Pacific Ring of Fire).
I'm pretty sure that the Japanese people on Oahu all took it in stride and wondered what all the hub-bub was all about!
- Take it easy
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