Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Earthquake, tsunami hoax alarms hundreds on O'ahu
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(Rod Ohira and Will Hoover - Honolulu Advertiser).
A hoax about a pending earthquake and tsunami triggered a storm of calls yesterday to civil defense, police and news organizations, and sent hundreds of Leeward O'ahu residents rushing for gas and supplies.
"It appears to have been orchestrated and malicious," state Civil Defense spokesman Ray Lovell said last night.
State officials said they received 500 to 600 calls from residents from 4 to 6 p.m.
Spokesman John Cummings said O'ahu Civil Defense took hundreds of calls and he even answered one from a relative on Maui. O'ahu's 911 system was bombarded by hundreds of inquiries, according to police, and geophysicists Brian Shiro and Victor Sardina answered about 200 calls from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in 'Ewa Beach. Read More...
a firePosted by SilverJade Posted by Ninja T. Penguin
(Rod Ohira and Will Hoover - Honolulu Advertiser).
A hoax about a pending earthquake and tsunami triggered a storm of calls yesterday to civil defense, police and news organizations, and sent hundreds of Leeward O'ahu residents rushing for gas and supplies.
"It appears to have been orchestrated and malicious," state Civil Defense spokesman Ray Lovell said last night.
State officials said they received 500 to 600 calls from residents from 4 to 6 p.m.
Spokesman John Cummings said O'ahu Civil Defense took hundreds of calls and he even answered one from a relative on Maui. O'ahu's 911 system was bombarded by hundreds of inquiries, according to police, and geophysicists Brian Shiro and Victor Sardina answered about 200 calls from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in 'Ewa Beach.
