The Conversation: Myanmar earthquake; Fatalities spike for bike riders, pedestrians

By Catherine Cruz,

Maddie Bender

Published March 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM HST

Hawaii Bicycling League volunteers repair safety features of a bike lane on Pensacola Street in Honolulu on Oct. 7, 2023.

Miemie Winn Byrd with the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies discusses how Hawaiʻi's Burmese community is responding to the devastating earthquake in Myanmar | Full Story
Travis Counsell, executive director of the Hawaiʻi Bicycling League, calls attention to a rise in fatalities among pedestrians and bike riders | Full Story
Researcher Kwok Fai Cheung investigates the link between earthquakes in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska and tsunamis in Hawaiʻi | Read the study | Full Story
HPR's Cassie Ordonio reports on the revival of the oldest newspaper west of the Rockies | Full Story

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