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...what they paid to see were dark action pictures with ceiling-high body counts and suppurating psychopaths. Shutter Island, with Leonardo DiCaprio playing a U.S. marshal who is trapped in a remote insane asylum, stayed in first place in its second week, according to early studio estimates. Martin Scorsese's you-dunit claimed $22.2 million, easily besting the $18.6 million registered by the Bruce Willis-Tracy Morgan police-buddy comedy Cop Out, which survived a title change (from A Couple of Dicks) and felonious reviews (a 20% score on Rotten Tomatoes). In third place, with a solid $16.5 million...
...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 cataclysmic wave into Hilo, killing 61. (See the effects of the South Pacific tsunami...
...first tsunami wave is expected to hit at 11:04 a.m., Hawaii time, at heights estimated from 39 inches to six feet. Through local lore, residents know that the first wave may not be the biggest one. Indeed, because of the island's geography, the waves are expected to wrap around the islands, bouncing from one to the other, after they first make impact...
Because the Ring follows the coastlines of Pacific Ocean, almost any major quake can also produce a tsunami, a powerful wave that travels from the epicenter of the temblor across the ocean basin. That's what happened in 2004, when a 9.3-magnitude quake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra triggered a devastating tsunami, and that's is what's likely to happen following today's 8.8-magnitude quake off the coast of Chile. (See the latest photos of the earthquake in Chile...
...have to give back your sweet little Prius? You can unintentionally accelerate through this sour beverage, courtesy of your favorite island nation.Blend the following...