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Tsunami center to change system after warning glitch

Hawaii remained on a watch alert list but was never at risk

By Marcel Honoré

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 07, 2013

~~<p>A software glitch mistakenly added Hawaii to a tsunami watch alert sent out globally on Tuesday, an official with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.</p>
<p>&quot;Hawaii was never under (a) watch&quot; for the risk of tsunami after Tuesday's magnitude-8.0 earthquake near the Santa Cruz Islands, said Victor Sardinha, a geophysicist with the Ewa Beach-based center.</p>
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A software glitch mistakenly added Hawaii to a tsunami watch alert sent out globally on Tuesday, an official with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.

"Hawaii was never under (a) watch" for the risk of tsunami after Tuesday's magnitude-8.0 earthquake near the Santa Cruz Islands, said Victor Sardinha, a geophysicist with the Ewa Beach-based center. Login for more...



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