For about 10 painful mins on Wednesday, communities opposite a Hawaiian island of Oahu and in Kahului, Maui, were “sent into a panic” after a sounding of puncture sirens, internal media reported. Residents frantically called their internal newspapers and radio stations in an try to figure out what had happened and deluged a phone lines of state agencies and police.
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