The cancellation of the downgraded tsunami advisory for the state on Wednesday morning capped off a whirlwind 12 hours in which residents hunkered down and evacuated coastlines.
One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the coast of Russia on Tuesday afternoon Hawaiʻi time, prompting tsunami alerts here in the islands as well as in Japan and on the U.S. West Coast.
In downtown Honolulu, tsunami sirens blared and bumper-to-bumper traffic lined the streets during the tsunami warning — one level up from an advisory.
Soo-min and Addy spoke with The Conversation’s Maddie Bender as they were waiting for a bus in Chinatown…