New Maps, App Prepare Hawaii for Extreme Tsunami
Tsunami have crossed the ocean and hit Hawaii many times in the last century: in 1946, 1952, 1957, 1960, and 1964. But it was the Japan tsunami in 2011 that shook local emergency planners to the core. Not because of what happened to the state, but because of what could have happened.
"The March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami was a wake up call for em…
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