11-25-2007, 02:04 AM
I'm not going to be a worrier in Hawaii about all the dangerous things like Pele and tsunamis. Like someone said elsewhere, hurricanes hit the Gulf, the Great Plains get tornado'ed, most everywhere is subject to flooding, and I live in earthquake-prone California.
Tsunamis are an under-valued threat, though, IMO. A major earthquake or landslide anywhere from southern Chile to the Aleutians can point a big one at Puna, and I don't discount the "wrap-around" effect of an Asian earthquake-tsunami.
Pele is well studied, mapped, and at least somewhat predictable. And I'm not getting in on the raffle where the current flow is headed. I hope it makes a right turn and drops off into the Pacific. Punatics have enough to worry about besides the volcano.
How do I know?
Tsunamis are an under-valued threat, though, IMO. A major earthquake or landslide anywhere from southern Chile to the Aleutians can point a big one at Puna, and I don't discount the "wrap-around" effect of an Asian earthquake-tsunami.
Pele is well studied, mapped, and at least somewhat predictable. And I'm not getting in on the raffle where the current flow is headed. I hope it makes a right turn and drops off into the Pacific. Punatics have enough to worry about besides the volcano.
How do I know?
Aloha! ;-)