Most of the media attention – and quite properly so – is falling on Superstorm Sandy, which is now moving up along the East Coast. We here in Hawaii had...

Those of us who have lived in Hawaii for more than a few years — for me, it will be 50 years in May of next year — can’t help...

As everyone knows, the first sign of an approaching tsunami is when water recedes, exposing the sea bottom or reefs. That was the case here on Maui, minutes before the...

Update: This photo was taken on April 1, 1946, when a tsunami generated from an earthquake in the Aleutians struck the town of Hilo on the Island of Hawaii and...