For about 10 agonizing minutes on Wednesday, communities across the Hawaiian island of Oahu and in Kahului, Maui, were “sent into a panic” after the sounding of emergency sirens, local media reported. Residents frantically called their local newspapers and radio stations in an attempt to figure out what had happened and deluged the phone lines of state agencies and police.

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