Catastrophes In Hawaii

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Life in The Na Pali Coast is like an everyday vacation. People look forward to waking up the next day to go to school or work. Although hundreds of volcanoes are scattered across the state, no one really lives in fear thinking that one will explode one day since it takes hundreds of years for one to erupt. That is why when the morning of one of the greatest catastrophes known in Hawaii occurred, it took everyone by surprise.

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