The tsunami generated by the Japan earthquake left one Big Island home and its contents underwater.
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Planning for Disaster on Big Island of Hawaii
Oceanfront building rules protect us from nature — and ourselves.
Posted inBig Island, Hawaiʻi
Japan-Level Tsunami Damage Unlikely in Hawaii
Evacuation maps show state’s worst-case scenario, experts say.
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Big Island a Victim of Tsunami ‘Bad Luck’
Hawaii Island’s geography put Kona coast directly in waves’ path.
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VIDEO: Hot Lava! Volcano Erupts At Hawaii’s Kilauea
Updated 11:00 a.m. Video footage shows an eruption at Kileaua Volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island.
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Bomb Threats at Kauai High School
For the second time in a week, high school on island of Kauai in Hawaii evacuated after a bomb threat.
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Lava Lake Rises on Hawaii’s Kilauea
Scientists are tracking a lake of lava on Hawaii’s most active volcano on the Big Island.
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Hawaii Donkeys Escape Castration…For Now
Local vets and the Human Society had planned mass sterilization of a herd of more than 400 wild donkeys on the Big Island.
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Looking for Cracks in East Maui’s Ditch System
Now that some water must be left in the streams, irrigation comes under scrutiny.