#Natural disaster

A shallow 7.7 quake off Flores Island triggered a tsunami warning and buried the main highway to the hardest-hit region under landslides, as the death toll climbed from 38 to 47 in a single day.

Hurricane Lala reached Category 1 strength Saturday, cutting power to nearly 24,000 Hawaii County customers and flooding parts of the Big Island in its first serious hurricane threat in 155 years.