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Post #260898 by stuff-o-rama on Sun, Oct 15, 2006 12:36 PM

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My mom is currently on a cruise, she said they just had an earthquake off the Kona side of Hawaii, measuring 6.3 So far they know there is damage at the Kohala Hospital and Royal Kona Resort. I just found more info on MSNBC so I'll update later...

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/special/Hawaii.php

Power was knocked out as far as Oahu, so far no tsunami warnings...

Here's a news story from Honolulu

http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=4d33fb8f-0abe-421a-00d8-21e74291c2aa&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf

[ Edited by: stuff-o-rama 2006-10-15 12:47 ]