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THIS IS AN EXERCISE: TSUNAMI WARNING An 8.2 Quake struck Alaska

9:49 a.m. UPDATE: The Tsunami drill is over.

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Police, CERT team members, fire and other county workers stand at the intersection of Paradise and 2nd during the tsunami exercise.

Police, CERT team members, fire and other county workers stand at the intersection of Paradise and 2nd during the tsunami exercise. (Photos by Baron Sekiya/Hawaii247.com)

Officer Sandor Finkey, right, talks to Manny Mattos, left, and Karl Seebruch during the tsunami exercise. Mattos is the director for Hawaiian Paradise Park Emergency and Education Team (ENET), Seebruch is also an ENET member and a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) member.

Officer Sandor Finkey, right, talks to Manny Mattos, left, and Karl Seebruch during the tsunami exercise. Mattos is the director for Hawaiian Paradise Park Emergency and Education Team (HPP-ENET), Seebruch is also an HPP-ENET member and a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) member.

9:27 a.m. UPDATE: Civil Defense has issued a TSUNAMI WARNING for the State of Hawaii. For more information visit the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

From PTWC

What is a Tsunami Warning?

The highest level of tsunami alert. Warnings are issued due to the imminent threat of a tsunami from a large undersea earthquake or following confirmation that a potentially destructive tsunami is underway. They may initially be based only on seismic information as a means of providing the earliest possible alert. Warnings advise that appropriate actions be taken in response to the tsunami threat. Such actions could include the evacuation of low-lying coastal areas and the movement of boats and ships out of harbors to deep water. Warnings are updated at least hourly or as conditions warrant to continue, expand, restrict, or end the warning.

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8:39 a.m. An 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. A tsunami may have been generated. Residents are ordered to leave tsunami inundation zones.

Estimated time of arrival of a tsunami to Hawaii is 12 noon today, Jan 27, 2009.

THIS IS ONLY A DRILL

Roadblock at Paradise and 2nd in Hawaiian Paradise Park.

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