October 18, 2006

• Hawaii Earthquake

  Bloggers Discuss 6.7 Magnitude Hawaii Earthquake
  
  Bloggers are discussing the recent earthquake that caused damage to homes, business and roads in Hawaii — especially on the Big Island which was closest to the epicenter. The USGS has now bumped the earthquake up to a 6.7. Fortunately, there appear to be no deaths caused by the quake and injuries appear to be light. The blogging has picked up now that some bloggers from Hawaii have their electricity back on. There are also videos appearing on YouTube.com and photos on Flickr.
  
  

• Hawaiirama has been providing updates on the earthquake situation including a list of hotels that have sustained damage.
• Metroblogging Hawaii has a couple posts here and here about the earthquake including a picture of people waiting for ice.
• Carolyn Gebbie: “What a terrifying experience. We had planned on a doing a 10km fun run this morning and had just parked at the local library and picked up our race packet and were pinning on our race numbers on the trunk of the car when the rumbling and shaking began. The cars in the parking lot were literally bouncing in their spots – looked like they were jumping jacks. The rumbling lasted for maybe 20 seconds – we had run into the middle of the lot away from cars, buildings, trees etc.”
• It was Dr. Drew’s first earthquake: “October is fast becoming my least favorite month. The second anniversary of the Manoa Flood is coming up in two weeks, but today’s natural disaster was a 6.6 earthquake on the Island of Hawaii. The tremor woke me up shortly after 7:00 this morning. After a second tremor, six minutes later, I sought shelter under my desk. The violent shaking stopped shortly thereafter.”
• Kona Hawaii Scuba Diver Babbles On: “The earthquake made for an interesting morning here in South Kona, but was far more of an event up Kohala and Hamakua direction. One of Pat’s co-workers who lives up north apparently had major home damage, as in the roof fell in and windows blew out. I’m sure we’ll be hearing lots more stories of more serious damage tomorrow. Hopefully the first reports that nobody was seriously hurt hold up.”
• Matt Denlter blogs that the Louis Vitton Hawaii International Film Festival is still on schedule. There is also a post here from the film festival’s blog.
• Hawaii Web Consulting is grateful for backups and generators.
• Ono Kine Grindz is OK: “Power went out shortly thereafter and contrary to the reports you may have heard, electric power was restored just this very second (about 16 hours later!).”
• Larry O’Brien at Knowing.net writes, “This morning’s earthquake, which occurred pretty much directly offshore from us, was several factors more severe than anything I experienced while living in California. I was in the city of San Francisco for the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and I compare that experience to a bumpy subway ride like Boston’s ‘T.’ The experience of this was akin to what you experience on a wooden roller coaster.” (thx Incremental Blogger)
• Great Solutions to Team Challenges: “It sounded like a freight train was driving through the house and the shaking – oy. When we lived in California the Loma Prieta quake rolled like a wave. This was violent, violent shaking. Never felt anything like it!”
• David Sohigian: “I guess the Goddess Pele heard that we were headed to the islands and she was not pleased.”
• Susan Souter at Maui Wedding Planner describes the jolt: “At 7:07 a.m. today, we were jolted in bed by an earthquake that they’re now saying it had a magnitude of 6.5 or 6.6. After it continued for several moments, I jumped up and ran to the archway door frame leading out of our bedroom and John grabbed the swaying big screen TV perched on its stand. In a few moments it stopped and we realized we had no power.”
• The fish knew something was coming. “Fish in a lagoon at a Hawaiian resort began to jump out the water like they were being jolted with electricity minutes before a 6.6 magnitude earthquake rattled the islands, causing blackouts and landslides, according to Local 6′s Erik von Ancken, who is vacationing in the area.”
• A first person account from Directions Magazine: “I was standing outside my hotel at the time, having just finished a morning run when what sounded like a low flying 747 rocked the area. Except this was more like 10 jumbo jets at one time. The building was rocking as I saw the windows bow in and out. Paintings fell from the walls, power was cut, and a nearby gas line was leaking.”
• Dots and Dashes managed to survive 24 hours without a computer. Although he is mad at the power company HECO for not providing more information.
• Linkmeister points to a couple earthquake damage photo resources today after describing what the earthquake felt like yesterday in a post titled “Yowzer.”
• Geek News Central (in Honolulu) was able to connect to the Internet shortly after the quake using a Spring Ev-Do card. “Within 5 minutes I had responded to the e-mail I was expecting and went off line so as not to tie things up to long.”
  
  Here’s a list of some other resources:
  
• Flickr Photos
• YouTube videos
• West Hawaii Today
• The Hawaii Channel
• The Honolulu Advertiser
• Honolulu Star-Bulletin
• MSNBC.com: Your Stories
• Hawaii Tribune Herald
• Topix.net Hawaii News
  
  Posted on October 16, 2006
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