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Navy, NASA want to renew Kaua‘i leases – Community shows support, opposition

Navy & NASA personnel held scoping sessions across Kaua‘i last week, to gather comments that will shape an environmental impact statement.

They are going fast: ‘I survived Honokohau Harbor’ T-shirts, with GPS coordinates

Big Island resident Luis De Alba found the GPS coordinates and decided they would go great on a T-shirt to commemorate two separate incidents of tourists driving right into the same Kona harbor.

Another tourist following GPS drives down same ramp into water at Big Island harbor

A tourist following GPS in Kailua-Kona did the same thing as another tourist one month earlier: driving down the same ramp directly into the water at Honōkohau Small Boat Harbor.

Volcano Watch: The missing slow slip events on Kīlauea’s south flank

Over the past two decades, scientists and members of the public have anticipated the occurrence of slow slip events (SSEs) on Kīlauea’s south flank. These events are recorded by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory’s (HVO) continuous GPS network, which show as much as 2 cm (0.75 inches) of increased seaward motion of the flank over 2-3 days — equivalent to about a M6 earthquake.

Researchers Detect Large-Scale Motion at San Andreas Fault

A research group at the University of Hawaiʻi was part of a team that has identified large-scale motion around the San Andreas Fault in Southern California.