University of Hawaii professor Kwok Fai Cheung started the project in 2003 with $200,000 in federal funds but is expecting some additional money from the state this year. Current tsunami maps are based only on historical data. The re-mapping is based on five tsunamis that hit the North Shore between 19, and takes into account the topography of the land along with how neighbor islands would affect the waves. He also said current maps for the state "do offer safety." Police and Oahu Civil Defense personnel, he added, "know where the new (evacuation) lines are." Gustafson said funding will determine how quickly the new maps are published. The evacuation maps in phone books were developed in 1991. Meanwhile, the maps might not show up in phone books for years. and people like to think that disasters happen elsewhere."Ĭommunity members were able to see the updated North Shore map at a public meeting Thursday aimed at discussing the re-designation of Sunset Beach Elementary School.īut officials declined to release the map until it has been finalized, which they say could come before the end of the year. "We have a long history of big tsunamis hitting the North Shore," said Dan Walker, an Oahu Civil Defense tsunami adviser and former University of Hawaii professor.
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And many residents have never been in a tsunami, which could mean they would not know how to react. Since then, dozens of homes and businesses have been built in the tsunami danger zone. The North Shore was the first of 28 tsunami danger zones statewide to be re-evaluated as part of a project expected to be completed in 2010, and in many ways it presents unique dilemmas to disaster planners, with much of its development, along with its main thoroughfare, situated on the coastline.Ī significant tsunami has not hit the North Shore since 1964. The new map shows water creeping up the school's tennis courts and flooding its entrance. The airfield would not have been evacuated based on old tsunami maps, which also predicted no part of Sunset Beach Elementary School would get flooded. "Dillingham Airfield is now a flood zone," state Civil Defense plans and operations officer Victor Gustafson said at a community meeting last week in Sunset Beach. By Mary a destructive tsunami hit the North Shore, Kamehameha Highway could be washed out, Dillingham Airfield flooded and access to Sunset Beach Elementary School blocked, according to a new model that has forced officials to change their evacuation plans for the area and take the school off Oahu's list of tsunami shelters.
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