Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
FIGURE J.1
Travel times for the February 27, 2010, Chilean tsunami. SOURCE: http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.
gov/previous.events/Chile_02-27-10/Images/traveltime.jpg; West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning Center,
NOAA.
DECISIONS MADE IN HAWAII
A statewide evacuation was not ordered; evacuation decisions were left to local counties.
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On September 27, the Oahu Emergency Management Department spokesman was quoted at
03:51 HST in the Honolulu Advertiser as saying, “If you live anywhere in the evacuation zone,
you have to evacuate. This is a serious event. We're going to treat this as a destructive-type
tsunami” (Box J.2). The Department of Emergency Management issued a Tsunami Evacua-
tion Information notice (no time stamp available) notifying residences in the coastal tsunami
evacuation zones on Oahu that they should begin evacuation immediately at 06:00 HST when
