May 10, 1924 Eruption of Kilauea

1924, May 18. Photographer hit by falling stones dies that night from internal hemorrhage. (reference #2432)

Acharya lists a tsunami associated with this eruption on May 30, 1924. Soloviev and Go (1975, A catalogue of tsunamis on the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean) state that "A number of investigators (Iida et al., 1967; Pararas-Carayannis, 1969) correctly express doubt about the existence of a link between the tsunami and the volcanic eruption. Shepard (Shepard et al., 1950) considers the tsunami to be a flood of meteorological origin.] Cox and Morgan (1977, Local tsunamis and possible local tsunamis in Hawaii) also state "The evidence suggests, therefore, that the phenomena reported were not manifestations of a tsunami. The newspaper accounts are consistent with the alternative hypothesis that the phenomena represented an unusual swell from a major storm in the southern hemisphere."