During the summer of 2018, hundreds of earthquakes shook the summit of Kīlauea, leading to the active volcano’s largest eruption in 200 years. Lava totaling 1 billion cubic yards—enough to fill at least 320,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools—inundated 13.7 square miles of the island, destroying 716 dwellings and covering 30 miles of road. For some residents it was catastrophic. Hawaiians see it as the goddess Pele’s way of creating new 'āina […]
A draft environmental assessment has been published for a planned subdivision along the North Kohala coast.
s is a and Shark Attack message for Tuesday, April 23 at 9:15 AM. Fire Dept. reports a shark attack occurred off the coast near Anaehoomalu Bay (A Bay) around 8:30 this morning. The beaches in the vicinity are closed until further notice.
In conjunction with the 56th Annual Merrie Monarch Festival, there will be a temporary one-way traffic pattern on Kalanikoa Street in Hilo Wednesday through Sunday of next week. Traffic will be allowed to flow in the makai, or northerly, direction on Kalanikoa Street between Pi’ilani Street to Kuawa Street during the festival. The one-way traffic pattern will remain in effect 24-hours beginning at noon, Wednesday, (April 24), through 8:00 a.m. Sunday, […]
Friday morning the Hawaii Fire Department ran a training exercise at Kawaihae Harbor, making several rounds dropping persons from the helicopter, retrieving them with the Billy Pugh net. We captured the action in this trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_3RHBpvkII HFD Billy Pugh Net Training Trailer HFD Training Exercise 4/12
Via: USGS At 5:09 pm on Saturday, much of the Big Island was rocked by a magnitude 5.2 earth quake originating near Hualālai at a depth of 9.9 mi. No tsunami threat was indicated. Did you feel it? Report it here.
MAUNAKEA, Hawaiʻi - Two telescopes located at the top of Maunakea helped to capture the very first image of a black hole, and a renowned Hawaiian language and cultural practitioner helped name it.
Kohala Connection: the creative team behind this ad are the late Jim Channon's son & son-in-law. ~Cosmic~
(Via BIVN) – A 75-year-old man “received wounds to his leg” in an apparent shark encounter that occurred after 10 a.m. Tuesday, within an isolated area between ‘Anaeho‘omalu Bay and Keawaiki off the Waikoloa coast of Hawai‘i Island.According to the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources: The man and three others report they were paddling outrigger canoes about a half-mile off shore when one of the boaters noticed the victim […]
