Scenario: Tsunami Warning

'''Please note that this scenario is meant to be read as entertainment, not as an accurate prediction of the future. I sincerely hope that this does NOT come true.'''

The 2032 Pacific Earthquake & Tsunami was a tsunami originating in Hawaii, specifically the Hilina Slump on the Kilauea volcano. The tsunami ended 12 hours after initial impact and had 325,000 casualties

Heightened Seismic Activity (2028-2032)
Several years before the tsunami began, seismic activity in Hawaii increased dramatically for 2 years. A group of seismologists from the California Institute of Technology visited the islands on February 17, 2028. They had been alerted of heightened seismic activity in Hawaii. Their studies began on February 26, 2028. As a result of this, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park was closed to the public indefinitely. The seismologists concluded that Kilauea is experiencing a major re-eruption. This eruption would be more violent than the 2018 eruption and would likely cause the Hilina Slump to collapse.. The eruption was predicted to happen on April 14, 2032. Evacuations were in order for the entire area as early as November 2031. On April 14, 2032, Kilauea violently erupted after nearly 5 years of buildup, leveling the Thomas A. Jaggar Museum near the volcano and the Kilauea Military Camp. The shockwave spread across the state, leveling weak buildings as far as Kailua-Kona and shattering glass as far away as Honolulu.

The Flank Falls (2032)
As the volcano erupted, an earthquake of 9.1 magnitude was triggered, causing most buildings on the island to collapse. One minute and fifteen seconds after the eruption, the Hilina Slump of Kilauea began to shift towards the sea. Another minute later, the flank begins to break up and accelerate towards the ocean. Within 25 seconds, the entire flank plummets into the sea. It displaces a large amount of ocean, now filling the area displaced by the flank. The entire state is under tsunami warning within 15 seconds of impact, and areas within 30 kilometers of the coast are evacuated inland towards mountainous regions above the expected tsunami line.

Hawaii
The tsunami begins rushing around the islands at unimaginable speeds and across the Pacific. Within 1 minute, 300 meter run-ups hit Hilo, completely destroying the city. Evacuations begin across Hawaii. Airplanes are evacuated to inland airports on the West Coast and Asia. Naval ships are to face the tsunami head-on the prevent capsizing during the tsunami and losing naval assets. Within 10 minutes, Maui and the surrounding islands are hit with 200 meter run-ups, destroying Kahului and Lahaina. Within these 10 minutes, over 10,000 have already died from the tsunami. 40 minutes after the initial impact, the tsunami reaches Oahu, the population center of the state. Highways out of the city had been backed up and people were fleeing out of the city on foot, abandoning their cars on the highway. The airport had already been evacuated of all planes. The tsunami strikes land 145 seconds after first sighting. At 150 meters tall, it destroyed most buildings in its path. It reached as far inland as Mililani, but the damage was minimal as the tsunami had reduced to just 2 meters in size once it reached the town. Part of the reason why the tsunami reduced in size so drastically because of a small gulch named Kipapa Gulch that allowed the tsunami to reduce in size to 5 meters after flooding the gulch and reducing it's speed to 10 kilometers per hour instead of over 480 kilometers per hour.

On Lanai and Niihau, 55 minutes after the initial impact, the tsunami has reached the last major islands in the chain. the islands are only hit with 75 meter run-ups, as the tsunami has decreased in size drastically. Most of the population has been evacuated inland, so only 104 people die on Lanai. There was no deaths no Ni'ihau, as all of their residents were evacuated to the Lanaian Mountains when the earthquake registered a magnitude 4.1 on the Richter Scale on Niihau. (WIP)

West Coast
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