HONOLULU (KHON2) — Hawaiʻi is no stranger to the ocean’s power. Most people know tsunamis as towering waves caused by earthquakes far across the Pacific. What many do not know is that the islands ...
A magnitude 9.1 earthquake that shook Sumatra, Indonesia and the Andaman Islands caused deadly tsunamis that killed over 280,000 people and left more than 1 million displaced, according to the USGS.