Word: hilo
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...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 on Hawaii's Big Island. In 1960, an earthquake in Chile sent another...