Magnitude 6.3 Earthquake Strikes Hawaii

[Kevy Baby]

Hopefully Fab will poke her head in and give an update.

[Gemini Cricket]

The cellphone service is in and out and the power is out in Honolulu but not on the Big Island...

[CoasterMatt]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

They are of course a little shaken...

Not stirred, right?

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

Not stirred, right?

Right.

I'm trying to figure out what Hawai'i did to tick off Pat Robertson to order such a big earthquake from his god...

[Gemini Cricket]

Ooh. Honolulu's newscaster, Shawn Ching, is on CNN. He's cuuute. He's one of my faaaavorites.

[CoasterMatt]

I'm watching a special about "Anatomy of an Earthquake" - they go in to detail about the Northridge Meadows apartment complex disaster from 1994.
It's kind of weird to see where that place was (we live about a mile or so from there), and see that they've built a new apartment building.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

In 1989, we lived in an apartment on top of a hill in the Western Addition of San Francisco. We had all our glasses on open shelves in the kitchen. Though it felt like we were riding a jackhammer, somehow we rode the wave and lost just one champagne flute. Our neighbors, whose kitchen was oriented differently, had everything come down. Still a better outcome than some of those who lived near the marina whose buildings came down around them. All around, still better than Iran, Armenia, etc.

We're just above you on the edge of Pacific Heights at Cal/Octavia. We're on bedrock and had nary a crooked picture in 1989. I was just coming out of work and waiting for a 1 California bus in front of the Hyatt. It was the strongest and longest quake I can remember, it sure felt a lot longer than 15 seconds. I grabbed the bus pole to stop from falling over.

[jdramj]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Hopefully Fab will poke her head in and give an update.

On her board, it has been reported that she has been reached by phone and was out of power, but fine. She said they did a lot of swaying.

[Tref]

I read one account in which a guy was driving his car during the earthquake. He knew it was a big one because the hula doll on his dashboard did a back-flip.