Some thoughts about the earthquake in hawaii

[Running Mommy]

So as I was driving home from San Diego today listening to the CNN coverage on the quake an immediate thought came to mind. Today was the day that they USUALLY have the Ironman world championships in Kona!!! For some reason they changed it this year to the following weekend... And I also seem to remember hearing some scuttle butt about that. I bet those folks are thanking their stars now! When it happened there would have been 2000 athletes in the water just starting their swim. And from what I heard the queen K hwy up to Hawi is a MESS! they even referenced some Im athletes training on the road when the boulders came down!
YIPES!!! Now that would make me pick up the pace on the bike!!
All I can say is WHEWWW!!!
Now I just hope they can get everything in order to race next weekend. And I also really feel for those who lost their homes. I'm sure it's pretty bad in some of the more rural (read poorer) areas.

[Grog]

A earth sciences grad student and friend of mine told me tonight that Hawaii was the world's most unlikely place to have an earthquake, too (despite the volcanos).

I feel sorry for the competitors too. I hope everything will be okay for them and everyone else...

[Nanci]

As an update to news reports, Ironman has been in continuous contact with state and local authorities assessing the situation from this morning's earthquake in Hawaii. Ironman's foremost mission is the safety and care of the Kona community, event volunteers and its Ironman athletes. While reports from the local/state authorities and the resort management agencies are still coming in, local daily operations are resuming and proceeding as normal. Contingency plans are in place regarding the Ford Ironman World Championship event, but at the present time, no alterations to the event or course are necessary. We, at Ironman appreciate all the calls of support and should anything change in the next few hours or days, Ironman will release all information via the website, www.ironman.com as quickly as possible.

(I've never heard of an earthquake in HI before!)

Two weeks till IM FL...

[DeniseGoldberg]

For anyone else who is interested in Hawaii and earthquakes - apparently smaller quakes there are quite common (per the link I've included below, on the scale of thousands per year) and are often related to the volcanic activity. Here's an article about the Big Island and earthquakes: http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/hazards/earthquakes.html. (Source of article: US Geologic Service)

[Trek420]

checking the map of likely earthquakes

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/...ia/hazards.php

[Nanci]

http://tinyurl.com/yj7yzz

[KnottedYet]

We've been having some little ones here at Mt. Rainier. Usually Mt. Rainier is pretty quiet. Or at least, Mt. St. Helen's gets all the attention.

And Mt. Baker throws out a huge steam cloud every so often. (that gets exciting)

[Bluetree]

Two of my cycling buddies are competing next weekend at Kona. I haven't heard from them so I'm hopin' and prayin' they're OK. The local news reported that LAX Int'l was jammed with passengers stranded because of canceled flights to Hawaii, some of them camped out at the airport for up to ten hours.

[Grog]

We've been having some little ones here at Mt. Rainier. Usually Mt. Rainier is pretty quiet. Or at least, Mt. St. Helen's gets all the attention.

And Mt. Baker throws out a huge steam cloud every so often. (that gets exciting)

I'd call that scary... If either of those gets mad, Seattle won't have a good time! (Nor probably will Vancouver.)

[Popoki_Nui]

We've been having some little ones here at Mt. Rainier. Usually Mt. Rainier is pretty quiet. Or at least, Mt. St. Helen's gets all the attention.

And Mt. Baker throws out a huge steam cloud every so often. (that gets exciting)

"I don't know,
I don't know,
I don't know where I'm 'a gonna go
When the volcano blow"

Sorry...couldn't help my parrothead self

~S.