2009年11月25日 · The funnel-like underwater shape of Hilo’s bayfront amplifies the incoming waves creating larger heights, stronger inland surges. Case in point, Hilo Bay (pictured below) received wave heights reaching 35 feet during a May 1960 tsunami that struck the Islands, while other areas of Hawaii reported wave heights of 3 to 17 feet.

2021年4月1日 · HILO, BIG ISLAND (HawaiiNewsNow) - Seventy-five years ago, on April Fools’ Day 1946, the most destructive tsunami in Hawaii’s modern history barreled onto island shorelines.

2009年11月13日 · A tsunami caused by an earthquake off the coast of Chile travels across the Pacific Ocean and kills 61 people in Hilo, Hawaii, on May 23, 1960. The massive 9.5-magnitude quake had killed...

2023年4月1日 · Exactly 77 years ago, on April Foolʻs Day 1946, Hilo and the surrounding coast was hit by the most devastating tsunami in Hawaiʻi's modern history. The death toll: 159.

The 1946 tsunami in Hilo prompted the U.S. and other countries of the Pacific Rim to create a network of seismometers, tidal gauges, and ocean buoys designed to detect the undersea tremors that generate tsunamis.

It killed 96 people and destroyed huge swaths of neighborhoods and businesses. A public clock survived that disaster, only to succumb to another tsunami that struck with awful effect in the middle of the night on May 23, 1960.

Tsunami washing over and destroying the Hilo Harbor pier. An Army crash boat that was at the wharf washed up about 400 feet, went over the railroad tracks, and ended up against these molasses tanks. Downtown Hilo after the 1946 tsunami, illustrating damage to the makai (ocean) side of Kamehameha Avenue.

2023年4月5日 · Tsunami damage on April 1, 1946, in Hilo, Hawaiʻi. For Tsunami Awareness Month in Hawaiʻi, we're marking the anniversary of the deadliest tsunami to strike the islands in modern times. On April 1, 1946, an 8.6 magnitude earthquake off the Aleutian Islands triggered a massive wave that killed nearly 160 people.

2021年11月24日 · The earthquake that involved a severe plate shift caused a severe tsunami traveling at 400 miles per hour towards Hilo, Hawaii. The video shows how the tsunami travelled through the Pacific Ocean and the images in the slideshow …

The Hawaiian Islands have had their share of tsunami. Hilo was rocked by a series of waves in the middle of the day on April 1 1946 as a result of a massive earthquake in the Aleutian Islands. The series of waves arrived in middle of the day while schools were in session and many were out and about. Hilo suffered about 150 casualties that April ...