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US: Waialua Residents Clean Up Coastline After Devastating Floods in Oahu

On Sunday, March 22, residents of Waialua took to the beach to clean up debris washed ashore by the recent flooding, helping to restore their coastline in the storm's aftermath.

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US: Thousands Evacuated in Oahu as Another Kona Low Triggers Catastrophic Flooding 2

Thousands of residents near a dam in the northern part of Oahu were ordered to evacuate on Friday, March 20, as another Kona Low storm triggered catastrophic flooding in the area, with officials warning that the 120-year-old Wahiawa Dam was at risk of imminent failure.

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US: Thousands Evacuated in Oahu as Another Kona Low Triggers Catastrophic Flooding 3

Thousands of residents near a dam in the northern part of Oahu were ordered to evacuate on Friday, March 20, as another Kona Low storm triggered catastrophic flooding in the area, with officials warning that the 120-year-old Wahiawa Dam was at risk of imminent failure.

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US: Thousands Evacuated in Oahu as Another Kona Low Triggers Catastrophic Flooding 4

Thousands of residents near a dam in the northern part of Oahu were ordered to evacuate on Friday, March 20, as another Kona Low storm triggered catastrophic flooding in the area, with officials warning that the 120-year-old Wahiawa Dam was at risk of imminent failure.

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US: Thousands Evacuated in Oahu as Another Kona Low Triggers Catastrophic Flooding

Thousands of residents near a dam in the northern part of Oahu were ordered to evacuate on Friday, March 20, as another Kona Low storm triggered catastrophic flooding in the area, with officials warning that the 120-year-old Wahiawa Dam was at risk of imminent failure.

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US: Hawaii Braces for Another ‘Kona’ Storm Just Days After Historic Storm

Just four days after a powerful 'Kona' storm swept through Hawaii with flooding rains and winds exceeding 100 mph, a second Kona low arrived on Thursday, March 19, threatening renewed flooding across the already saturated islands. The new system was forecast to be weaker than the previous storm, but officials warned that the saturated ground significantly increased the risk of flash flooding and landslides.

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US: Powerful Kona Storm Batters Hawaii With Record Rainfall and Hurricane-Force Winds

A powerful Kona Low battered Hawaii with heavy rain and hurricane-force winds, causing widespread flooding, landslides, road closures, and power outages. The storm brought record-breaking rainfall to the state from March 10–15, with Maui seeing up to 46 inches of precipitation. Residents described it as the worst storm they had ever seen, enduring roughly 72 hours without power, leaking roofs, and flooded streets. Oahu also recorded over 19 inches of rainfall in multiple locations.

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US: Record Kona Storm Triggers Flooding and Power Outages in Hawaii

A slow-moving kona low brought record-breaking rainfall to Hawaii from March 10–15, with Maui seeing up to 46 inches of precipitation. Residents described it as the worst storm they had ever seen, enduring roughly 72 hours without power, leaking roofs, and flooded streets. Oahu also recorded over 19 inches of rainfall in multiple locations.

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US: Powerful ‘Kona’ Storm Batters Hawaii, Triggering State of Emergency

A powerful 'Kona' storm battered the Hawaiian Islands, bringing dangerous flooding and wind gusts over 100 mph, under a statewide State of Emergency declared by Governor Josh Green. Widespread power outages were reported across the islands on Saturday, March 14, with Oahu remaining under a flood watch throughout the day.

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US: Hawaii Hotel Guests Evacuated to Higher Floors Amid Tsunami Threat

A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's eastern coast on Tuesday, July 29, triggered a tsunami warning for the Hawaiian Islands and prompted evacuations from coastal areas. In O'ahu, hotel guests on lower floors were forced to sleep in the hallway of higher floors for safety.

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Tsunami warning issued in Hawaii

A beach in Honolulu on Oahu Island, Hawaii, is mostly empty on July 29, 2025, after a tsunami warning was issued following a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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Tsunami warning issued in Hawaii

People evacuate from a beach in Honolulu on Oahu Island, Hawaii, on July 29, 2025, after a tsunami warning was issued following a powerful earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula.

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US: Roof Blown Off By Winter Storm In Kaneohe, Hawaii

A winter storm slammed into Hawaiian islands on Thursday, January 30, flooding streets, knocking down trees, and causing power outages. This video shows a roof being blown off in Kaneohe, Hawaii.

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US: Winter Storm Batters Hawaii, Causing Flooding, Power Outages 5

A winter storm slammed into Hawaiian islands on Thursday, January 30, flooding streets, knocking down trees, and causing power outages.

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US: Winter Storm Batters Hawaii, Causing Flooding, Power Outages 4

A winter storm slammed into Hawaiian islands on Thursday, January 30, flooding streets, knocking down trees, and causing power outages.

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US: Winter Storm Batters Hawaii, Causing Flooding, Power Outages 3

A winter storm slammed into Hawaiian islands on Thursday, January 30, flooding streets, knocking down trees, and causing power outages.

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US: Winter Storm Batters Hawaii, Causing Flooding, Power Outages 2

A winter storm slammed into Hawaiian islands on Thursday, January 30, flooding streets, knocking down trees, and causing power outages.

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US: Kīlauea Volcano In Hawaii’s Big Island Erupts, Causing Travel Disruptions

Kīlauea Volcano, located on Hawaii's Big Island, erupted early Monday morning, December 23, at approximately 2:20 a.m. Hawaiian Airlines delayed seven interisland departures and canceled two flights.

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Scene in Honolulu

Tourists stroll down Kalakaua Avenue along Waikiki Beach in Honolulu on Hawaii's Oahu island on Nov. 17, 2023.

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Scene in Honolulu

Tourists soak up the sun at Waikiki Beach in Honolulu on Hawaii's Oahu island on Nov. 17, 2023.

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Honolulu's Skyline rail system

File photo taken in June 2023 shows a driverless Skyline train running near Honolulu on Hawaii's Oahu island.

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Honolulu's Skyline rail system

File photo taken in June 2023 shows a driverless Skyline train running near Honolulu on Hawaii's Oahu island.

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Rail system opens on Hawaii's Oahu island

Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi (L) speaks during the opening ceremony for the initial segment of the self-driving Skyline rail system on Oahu island in Hawaii on June 30, 2023.

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Rail system opens on Hawaii's Oahu island

Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi (3rd from L) attends the opening ceremony for the initial segment of the self-driving Skyline rail system on Oahu island in Hawaii on June 30, 2023.

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Signboard washed away by 2011 tsunami returns to village

MORIOKA, Japan - An official in Tanohata village, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, touches a signboard of a village-operated housing complex, washed away by the tsunami of March 2011, as it is returned from Oahu in the U.S. state of Hawaii on July 30, 2014.

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Signboard washed away by 2011 tsunami returns to village

MORIOKA, Japan - Officials in Tanohata village, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, view a signboard of a village-operated housing complex, washed away by the tsunami of March 2011, as it is returned from Oahu in the U.S. state of Hawaii on July 30, 2014.

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Royal couple pay tribute to U.S. war dead, hail scholarship

HONOLULU, United States - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) raises his glass at a banquet to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship Foundation in Hawaii's Oahu Island on July 15. (Pool photo)

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Japanese sumo wrestlers in Hawaii

HONOLULU, United States - Ozeki Kaio (front) charges during a sightseeing tour of Oahu island on June 7. A delegation of sumo wrestlers arrived in Honolulu earlier in the day to take part in a sumo exhibition tournament, the first in 14 years. The two-day exhibition meet involving wrestlers in the top makuuchi division will be held June 9-10.

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Japanese sumo wrestlers in Hawaii

HONOLULU, United States - Newly promoted yokozuna Hakuho (R) and ozeki Kaio take a sightseeing tour of Oahu island shortly after arriving in Honolulu to take part in a sumo exhibition tournament in Hawaii, the first in 14 years. The two-day exhibition meet involving wrestlers in the top makuuchi division will be held June 9-10.

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S. Korea's Kim wins SBS Open golf

KAHUKU, Hawaii - Kim Joo Mi of South Korea holds up her trophy after winning the season-opening SBS Open at the Arnold Palmer Course at the Turtle Bay Gold Resort in Oahu, Hawaii, on Feb. 18.

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Miyazato finishes 48th on LPGA rookie debut

KAHUKU, Hawaii - Japan's Ai Miyazato finished a disappointing 48th on her LPGA Tour rookie debut at the season-opening SBS Open at the Arnold Palmer Course at the Turtle Bay Gold Resort in Oahu, Hawaii, on Feb. 18.

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Miyazato joins SBS Open in Hawaii

KAHUKU, United States - Japan's Shinobu Moromizato begins at the 10th hole on the first day of the SBS Open at the Arnold Palmer Course of the Turtle Bay Gold Resort in Oahu, Hawaii, on Feb. 16.

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Miyazato joins SBS Open in Hawaii

KAHUKU, United States - Japan's Ai Miyazato tees off at the 10th hole on the first day of the SBS Open at the Arnold Palmer Course of the Turtle Bay Gold Resort in Oahu, Hawaii, on Feb. 16.

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Miyazato, Moromizoto tune up for SBS Open

KAHUKU, United States - Japan's Shinobu Moromizato looks relaxed during her practice on Feb. 14 ahead of the SBS Open beginning at the Arnold Palmer Course of the Turtle Bay Gold Resort in Oahu, Hawaii, on Feb. 16.

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Miyazato, Moromizoto tune up for SBS Open

KAHUKU, United States - Japan's Ai Miyazato practices her approach shot on Feb. 14 ahead of the SBS Open beginning at the Arnold Palmer Course of the Turtle Bay Gold Resort in Oahu, Hawaii, on Feb. 16.

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Relatives pray for Ehime Maru victims in Hawaii

HONOLULU, United States - Thirteen relatives of three people who died in the 2001 sinking of the Japanese fisheries high school training ship Ehime Maru by a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine in waters off Hawaii pray for the victims at a memorial in the Kaka'ako seaside park on Oahu Island on Feb. 9 in a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the sinking.

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U.S. Navy modifies operation to lift Ehime Maru

HONOLULU, United States - U.S. Navy Capt. Bert Marsh briefs reporters in Oahu, Hawaii, on Aug. 22 about an altered plan to lift the Ehime Maru, the Japanese high school fisheries training vessel sunk in a collision with a U.S. nuclear-powered submarine off Honolulu in February.

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Divers to recover Ehime Maru's missing crew members

HONOLULU, United States - The U.S. Navy makes public to reporters their divers' training at the naval base in Oahu Island in Hawaii on Aug. 15. Sixty-six U.S. Navy divers, as well as 30 Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) divers, will participate in recovering the bodies of crew members who went down with Japanese fisheries training vessel the Ehime Maru after it collided with a U.S. submarine in February. They will continue their training until Aug. 17.

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Relatives unsatisfied with Waddle testimony, want punishment

HONOLULU, United States - Relatives of the nine Japanese lost at sea in the Feb. 9 sinking of the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru by a U.S. submarine speak to reporters at the U.S. naval base in Oahu, Hawaii, on March 20 after the Navy's Court of Inquiry ended its last session. They expressed dissatisfaction with testimony by Cmdr. Scott Waddle, captain of the USS Greeneville, which sank the Ehime Maru in a collision.

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Waddle takes stand in surprise move

HONOLULU, United States - Cmdr. Scott Waddle, former captain of the U.S. submarine Greeneville, walks to the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry on Oahu Island, Hawaii, on March 20. Waddle, acting against the advice of his counsel, testified on the collision of the sub with the Japanese ship Ehime Maru off Hawaii last month, accepting full responsibility for the accident but also blaming his crew for not following his orders.

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Ehime Maru captain urges U.S. Navy inquiry to be thorough

HONOLULU, United States - Hisao Onishi, captain of the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru, leaves a U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry on Oahu Island, Hawaii, on March 14 after testifying on the events surrounding the Feb. 9 collision between his ship and the U.S. submarine Greeneville. He called for the court to be thorough in its investigation into the accident to prevent similar disasters.

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Inquiry into Ehime Maru accident opens March 5

HONOLULU, U.S. - The U.S. Navy will begin its formal investigative inquiry on March 5 at its Pearl Harbor base into the deadly collision between the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru and the U.S. submarine Greeneville. A panel of three admirals will hear the arguments and counter-arguments that will determine the fate of the three top officers of the 6,080-ton Greenville, which struck and sank the 499-ton Japanese ship off Hawaii's Oahu Island while demonstrating an emergency surfacing maneuver for 16 civilian guests on Feb. 9.

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Honolulu ukulele player to release Ehime Maru song

HONOLULU, United States - Jake Shimabukuro strums a ukulele on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. He has written a song titled ''Ehimemaru,'' dedicated to the victims of the sinking of the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru near Hawaii last month, and plans to release it. Sales from the song are to be donated to a fund recently set up by Hawaii-based groups. Shimabukuro, a fourth-generation Japanese-American, said he wanted to do something to help relatives of the nine people missing, presumed dead, in the Feb. 9 collision.

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Buddhist monks in Hawaii pray for rescue of missing 9

HONOLULU, United States - Photo shows Ryokan Ara, a 72-year-old priest at a Tendai Sect temple in Honolulu, who is one of several Japanese Buddhist monks in Hawaii who have been praying for the rescue of nine Japanese missing since the Feb. 9 sinking of a Japanese high school fisheries training ship by a U.S. submarine off the island of Oahu. ''We feel pain thinking about the families of the missing people. We hope they will return safe,'' Ara said.

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Ehime Gov. Kato to demand trawler off Hawaii be raised

MATSUYAMA, Japan - Ehime Gov. Moriyuki Kato (L) prepares to leave Matsuyama airport Feb. 20 to travel to Hawaii to directly ask U.S. authorities to raise the trawler Ehime Maru. The 499-ton training ship from Uwajima Fisheries High School in Ehime Prefecture sank off Oahu Island in the Feb. 9 collision with the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville.

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Families of Ehime Maru form association

HONOLULU, United States - Families of the nine missing in the Feb. 9 collision between the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru and the U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Greeneville off Hawaii talk with Japanese Parliamentary Foreign Secretary Yoshitaka Sakurada (R) in Honolulu on Feb. 19. They have formed an association to collectively demand the U.S. authorities raise the sunken ship, which has been found lying on the seabed about 600 meters underwater off Oahu Island.

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Submersible sent to study sunken Japanese ship

HONOLULU, United States - A remotely controlled submersible vehicle, Deep Drone (R), sits near the stern of a U.S. Navy ship on Feb. 18 off the island of Oahu, Hawaii, in an area of sea where a U.S. submarine sank a Japanese training ship. The submersible is being used to determine what form a recovery operation for the sunken ship should take. The Ehime Maru sank Feb. 9 after it was hit by the Greeneville.

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U.S. Navy continue search for missing Japanese

HONOLULU, United States - Two crew members of the U.S. Navy cruiser Port Royal stand on the bridge off Oahu Island, Hawaii, on Feb. 15 in search for possible clues to nine Japanese missing since their fisheries training ship sank Feb. 9 after being struck by a surfacing U.S. nuclear submarine.

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9 students from sunken ship arrive at Kansai airport

OSAKA, Japan - Nine Japanese students who were rescued Friday after their training ship sank following a collision with a U.S. nuclear submarine off Hawaii's Oahu Island arrive at Kansai airport off Osaka on Feb. 13.

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Families of missing Japanese head to collision site

HONOLULU, United States - Relatives of the nine Japanese missing following last week's collision between the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru and the U.S. nuclear submarine Greeneville near Hawaii board a chartered U.S. ship in Honolulu on Feb. 12 to head to the accident site some 18 kilometers south of Oahu Island. The Ehime is believed to be sitting on the seabed below.