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...know which areas to worry about when a tsunami warning goes off. Phonebooks have maps in the front indicating the likeliest inundation zones. Authorities also know which harbors to evacuate. That's why as soon as state officials were notified about the tsunami rippling out from the quake in Chile, ships were evacuated from the harbors in Honolulu, Kahului and Hilo. The airport was also shut down in Hilo, which in recent decades has been hit by not one but two tsunamis. In 1946, a quake in Alaska led to the deaths of nearly 160 people in this city...
...beach in Waikiki at 6 a.m. when the first tsunami warning sirens went off, blaring for 10 minutes - as they would every hour throughout the state. (They went off again at 7 a.m., in case anyone missed it.) By then, news of the massive quake in Chile had already filtered into hotels and homes in the area. (See pictures of the earthquake aftermath in Chile...
Scientists still can't predict exactly when earthquakes will occur, but the massive temblor that struck off the coast of Chile early Saturday was anything but unexpected. Chile sits on the Ring of Fire, the volatile, 40,000 km-long (25,000 MILE) zone that encircles the Pacific Ocean and includes the most seismically dangerous ground on the planet. The unstable plate tectonics along the Ring produce some 90% of the world's earthquakes as well as most of its volcanic eruptions. (See where experts predict the next five major earthquakes will...
...time, Chile was embroiled in an election where voters were to decide whether to grant Pinochet another eight years in office. Cavallaro regularly attended anti-Pinochet rallies, facing the wrath of police water cannons and once even being detained and threatened with immediate deportation...
...Cavallaro witnessed history when 56 percent of the country voted against Pinochet. He then remained in Chile through March 1990 during the inauguration of the first democratically-elected president in more than a decade...