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Hawaii triggering a false alarm again...
Whoops, my Finger Slipped! Hawaiians Panic as Police Trigger False Tsunami Warning During Training
https://www.rt.com/usa/469151-hawaii-police-trigger-emergency-system/
In a somewhat disturbing case of deja vu, the emergency warning sirens sounded in several parts of Hawaii early Wednesday evening, evoking memories of January’s false ballistic missile alert.
The alarm was inadvertently set off during Honolulu Police Department dispatcher training, which for some bizarre reason was being done on live equipment rather than with training software.
“I just want to apologize [to] the public,” Police Chief Susan Ballard said in an interview with Hawaii News Now. “It was just a very [simple] mistake. We need to do better.”
In this instance, it took 12 minutes for state agencies to confirm to the public that it was a false alarm, compared with the 28-minute delay in January...
There was a 6.2 DEEP earthquake that was reportedly downgraded from 6.6 followed by another 6 and other DEEP eq’s in Java / Indonesia that may have triggered something but no official tsunami alert was issued ... and that came after midnight PST. TBD ;)