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Hawaii Information

April is Tsunami Awareness Month in Hawaiʻi.

Annually, Country, State, and Federal partners, along with the private sector such as the Pacific Tsunami Museum, team up for month of awareness events on tsunamis. In 2018 , the Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate joins us contributing Hawaiian language materials.  

Tsunami Facts is a statewide brochure, customized by County, and in multiple languages. The ʻFactsʻ are the most common outreach questions asked to the City & County of Honolulu, Department of Emergency Management. Languages cover the non-English speaking population, aged 5 and older who speak a language other than English at home in Hawaiʻi (U.S. Census Bureau, Hawaiʻi Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, DBEDT, 2016).

General Information on tsunamis in the United States and the US Tsunami Warning System services and products, can be found in the US National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program Tsunami Information Guide (2019).

Kaua‘i - Tsunami Facts 
(Counties, ITIC 2018, 2022) 
(*, >5% spoken, DBEDT 2016)

Tsunami Facts - Kauai - English

O‘ahu - Tsunami Facts
(Counties, ITIC 2018, 2022) 
(*, >5% spoken, DBEDT 2016)

Tsunami Facts - O‘ahu - English

Maui - Tsunami Facts
(Counties, ITIC 2018, 2022) 
(*, >5% spoken, DBEDT 2016)

Tsunami Facts - Maui - English

Hawai‘i island - Tsunami Facts 
(Counties, ITIC 2018, 2022)
(*, >5% spoken, DBEDT 2016)

Tsunami Facts - Hawaii - English


 Sensing a Tsunami (Hawaii)
Sensing a Tsunami - Hawai‘i (ITIC 2013)

Tsunami Safety Rules for Hawaii
Tsunami Safety Rules for Hawai‘i (ITIC 2014)

 If There is a Tsunami Warning in Hawaii
If There is a Tsunami Warning
in Hawai‘i
 (ITIC 2014)



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ʻōlelo Noʻeau ‘Iliki ke kai...
Audio
(courtesy Kauaʻi EMA)

Signs of Tsunami (Walker 2018)

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Tsunamis in Hawai‘i 
(Walker, ITIC, 2013, 2020)

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Hawai‘i Historical Tsunami Effects 1812-2022 
(NCEI, ITIC, 2015, 2022)


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Distribution of Tsunamis affecting Hawai‘i (1812-2022)
(ITIC, NCEI, 2022)

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Tsunamis in Hawai‘i 
(observed>3 ft) 
(Walker, ITIC, 2013, 2020)

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Tsunamis in Hawai'i
(all observed) 1812-2022
(NCEI, ITIC, 2015, 2022)

 

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Hawai‘i Maximum Tsunami Runups (1900-2020)
(Walker, ITIC, 2013, 2020)

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 Tsunami Deaths and Damage 1812-2022 (>$0.5 million)
(NCEI, ITIC, 2015, 2022)


 

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Tsunami Essentials
historical observations of events
(Walker 2017)


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Tsunami Run-up Maps Kaua‘i
historical observations
(Walker, ITIC 2013)

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Tsunami Run-up Maps O‘ahu
historical observations
(Walker, ITIC 2013) 


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Tsunami Run-up Maps Maui
historical observations
(Walker, ITIC, 2013)


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Run-up Maps Moloka‘i & Lana‘i
historical observations
(Walker, ITIC 2013)

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Tsunami Run-up Maps Hawai‘i
historical observations
(Walker, ITIC 2013)


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Tsunamis Impacting
Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i
(video, ITIC 2018)

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Tsunamis Impacting
O‘ahu, Hawai‘i
(video, ITIC 2018)

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Tsunamis Impacting
Maui, Hawai‘i
(video, ITIC 2018)

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Tsunamis Impacting
Hawai‘i Island 
(video, ITIC 2018)

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Tsunami Vertical Evacuation,
Waikiki, Hawai‘i
(video, UNDRR 2020)
 

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