Transcript Pacific Tsunami Museum

Hilo, Hawaii
1946
1960
Map by Tsunami Memorial Institute
and D.A. Walker
Pacific Tsunami Museum Founders
Dr. Walter Dudley and Jeanne Johnston
Pacific Tsunami Museum
Donation of First Hawaiian Bank
Building to Pacific Tsunami Museum
New Hawaiian Island in 10,000 to 100,000 years
Off-site Back-up Facility
Museum Relies on:
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Admission Fees
Memberships
Donations
Volunteer Services
Hawai‘i Tsunami
Education Curriculum
Program
A Program of the Pacific Tsunami Museum
Supported by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks
And Pacific American Foundation
Funded by U.S. Department of Education, Native Hawaiian Program
Award No. S362A100021
Museum Scientific Advisors
George Curtis
Dr. Walter Dudley
Dr. Dan Walker
Laura Kong of the International
Tsunami Information Center (ITIC)
Dr. James Goff
Tsunami Research Centre in Australia
Manny Mattos
Museum Board Member
Dr. Gerard Fryer
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
Survivor Interview
Tsunami Museums in India and
Thailand
Water line on a house with a dock
piling Seward, Alaska 1964
Aufaga, Samoa 2009
PTM Oliver Amend Collection
Laupahoehoe Peninsula
Teacher cottage
in Laupahoehoe
Road down to
Laupahoehoe Point
Laupahoehoe April 1, 1946
Destruction at Laupahoehoe
Mona Malani:
“We saw the water building up. My
mom had taught us what are good
waves and those we had to be careful
of… We ran.”