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2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Exhibit to open in Dec. 2008

A new exhibit is scheduled to open at the museum in mid-December. The Indian Ocean Tsunami exhibit will include the earthquake/tsunami generation, scenes from Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, and the Maldives, and survivor stories. More to come on this.

MEMORIAL WALL

The Pacific Tsunami Museum is pleased to announce the establishment of a MEMORIAL AND BENEFACTOR WALL.

The wood frame with tiles is a focal point in the museum. It serves as a lasting tribute to those who lost their lives in a tsunami and the means to honor benefactors of the museum.

Commemorative tiles for the wall are 4" x 4" ($250), 6" x 6" ($500), or 8" x 8" ($1,000).

Please visit the museum if you would like to see the tiles or purchase one for the display.

Science Exhibit

The Pacific Tsunami Museum has a new exhibit "the Science of Tsunamis". There is informational material, photographs, and graphics on the subjects of runup and inundation, plate tectonics, surveying a tsunami, ocean waves, tsunami waves, tsunami warning systems, and seismographs.

Locally-Generated Tsunamis Exhibit

A new exhibit entitled "Locally-Generated Tsunamis" has opened at the museum and features the events at Halapē as well as displays on Lituya Bay and Newfoundland. This photo shows a view of the Halapē coast after the 1975 tsunami. The coconut grove is standing in the sea as a result of the subsidence of the shoreline.

On November 29, 1975, the island of Hawai‛i was jolted awake by a 7.2 earthquake centered beneath Kilauea's south flank, causing a sudden movement of the seafloor off the southeast coast of Hawaii. Halapē was right over the epicenter of the quake. Thirty campers were in the area, including a boy scout troop, fishermen, and Sierra Club members. Five minutes after the shaking stopped, a twenty-five-foot wave washed them in, resulting in the deaths of the scout leader and a fisherman. Nineteen others were severely injured. Coincident with the earthquake, ground along the shoreline subsided by up to ten feet, submerging much of the palm grove.