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Weather, air
& volcanic activity.
Latest available conditions for communities across Kaʻū, refreshed throughout the day.
About these updates: Weather and UV are near-current model estimates; air quality is regional modeled data, not a sensor in each town. Kīlauea information updates when USGS/HVO publishes a new notice.
KAʻŪ HISTORY
The Great Kaʻū
Earthquake of 1868.
On April 2, 1868, an earthquake estimated at magnitude 7.9 struck near Pāhala—the largest earthquake in Hawaiʻi’s recorded history. This One Wave Radio feature remembers the shaking, landslides, tsunami and volcanic crisis that changed Kaʻū.
Historical context based on research from the U.S. Geological Survey and Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.
Read the USGS historical account ↗
A PANIOLO ʻOHANA MEMORY
The boy who rode
toward Hīlea.
Family oral history as told by Abigail Kanakaʻole Oliveira about her father, Ioane Kanakaʻole.
The Great Kaʻū Earthquake reached far beyond the mountains. Its violent shaking devastated communities across the greater Kaʻū district, triggered landslides and mudflows in the uplands, altered the coastline, and generated a destructive tsunami across the ocean.
Watch the Great Kaʻū Quake of 1868 video above ↑Ioane Kanakaʻole—my great-grandfather—was still a young boy when the great earthquake struck Kaʻū in 1868. The day before the mudflow and landslide, his mother and father sent him south on horseback to stay with his uncle, Kainoa Kupuna, near Hīlea.
When Ioane’s parents did not arrive, Kainoa sensed that something terrible had happened. Ioane went to saddle his horse so he could ride back and search for them. His uncle stopped him.
As the story has been passed down, Kainoa told Ioane not to saddle his horse, explaining that they were all gone.
The mudflow had covered the village at Makakupa in the Wood Valley area of Kaʻū. The U.S. Geological Survey records 31 people killed in the disaster. According to the story preserved by our ʻohana, Ioane’s parents and the family members who remained at the village were among those buried. Ioane was remembered as the village’s only survivor—spared because his parents had sent him away the day before. His life carried their memory forward, and this history continues through the generations who came after him.
31 lives lostHistorical casualty count documented by the U.S. Geological Survey ↗Shared by Demetrius K. Oliveira in honor of his great-grandfather Ioane Kanakaʻole and grandmother Abigail Kanakaʻole Oliveira.
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A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER
Created from the heart.
Shared with community.
Demetrius K. Oliveira Founder & Music Creator
I’m Demetrius K. Oliveira. I created the original music you hear on One Wave Radio and wanted a place where I could share it freely with listeners everywhere. But the vision grew beyond the music. I saw an opportunity to create something useful for the people of Kaʻū—a welcoming local platform where good news, community events, important updates, and original voices can come together.
One Wave Radio is my way of giving back: an independent online radio station built to celebrate creativity, strengthen community connections, and help Volcano, Pāhala, Nā‘ālehu, Waiʻōhinu, Kalae and Ocean View stay informed and connected. The station is still growing, and every song, story, event and listener becomes part of the same wave.
Mahalo for listening—and for being part of One Wave Radio.~ De Oliveira