Destruction caused by the 1868 great Kau earthquake

Destruction caused by the 1868 great Ka‘ū earthquake included the Wai‘ōhinu church, shown here, in the Ka‘ū District of Hawai‘i Island. With a magnitude estimated at 7.9, the earthquake is the largest in Hawaii's recorded history. Photo by Henry L. Chase, published in "Volcanoes of Kīlauea and Mauna Loa on the Island of Hawai‘i" by W.T. Brigham, Bishop Museum Press, 1909.