Sirens blared in Hawaii and emergency management department shared warnings to ‘take action’ in event of tsunami

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Tsunami warning sirens blared in Honolulu as the emergency department called for the evacuation of some coastal areas after a powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula.

The massive quake struck on Wednesday, generating a tsunami of up to 4 metres (13 ft), damaging buildings and prompting evacuation warnings in the area and across most of Japan’s east coast, officials said.

Source: Guardian - World News