Tsunami Hits Hawaii, Causes Minimal Damage by Magdalena Rosova

Oceanographers issued a bulletin which says that a killer wave was heading on Hawaii and other Pacific islands. The oceanographers suggest an urgent action should be taken. But the devastating predictions have not fulfilled. Hawaii's beaches were empty for few hours on Sunday, but nothing scary happened. After waves half the predicted size tickled the shores of Hawaii, tourists returned to beaches and restaurants. Apparently, scientists have overstated the threat, but some still defend their actions, saying that killing Indonesian tsunami in 2004 gave them good lesson. Scientists say they had taken proper steps and the warning had been the right thing to do.. Scientists! warned 53 nations and territories that Chilean earthquake of 8.8 magnitude would generate a huge tsunami. The warning caused panic on the Pacific shores, hundreds of thousands of people left shorelines and went more inland. It was the biggest evacuation in Hawaii in years. Emergency sirens were blaring whole day, the Navy moved its ships out of Pearl Harbor and people collected food, water and gasoline in case of huge disaster. Some supermarkets had to place limits on some items, because of the panic buying that burst out. The tsunami on Robinson Crusoe Island off Chile's coast killed five people and devastated the city of Talcahuano, but the killing waves have never came to Hawaii. The biggest waves of about 5 feet were reported on the eastern coast of Hawaii, but did just little damage. In Tonga, 50,000 people fled inland ahead of the tsunami. No damage happened. In Japan, 400,000 people moved from shorelines. 10-feet high waves were predicted, but only 4-feet hi! gh waves hit the island of Hokkaido and caused no damage. Sc! ientists are blamed for unreasonably causing all the panic and chaos. Surprisingly, they refused to apologize.

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