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Thanks. I sent my friend a message because I’m not sure where abouts in Hawaii he lives. Hopefully he replies soon. But happy to hear it’s not high casualty dis

• saalweachter 4y ago
  It is probably going to be a no casualty event -- according to the USGS, only one person has died due to an eruption in Hawaii this century. Radios and cars make evacuations a lot easier. I'm not even sure we'd expect casualties from the evacuation -- if 100,000 people (twice the population of Hilo) drove entirely around the Big Island (300 miles), you'd only be at around 30 million passenger-miles, well short of the statistical 1 death per 100 million passenger-miles.
  • cxr 4y ago
    FYI: despite popular misconception, "casualty" doesn't imply death. A casualty of war, for example, might actually refer to someone who is wounded/maimed/etc. but still survives. If a house is consumed by lava and the occupant becomes displaced/homeless, it could reasonably be argued that it didn't result in zero casualties. Same goes for other things that might be more commonly understood as "collateral damage".