A 30-foot tsunami caused by an 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan Friday currently has Hawaii under tsunami advisory. Reports say the quake is the strongest to hit the country in at least 300 years and authorities have already found upwards of 300 bodies in the city of Sendai—a Japanese city at the quake’s epicenter. The damage has set off related warnings in surrounding areas including more distant areas, such as parts of California and Hawaii.
Rapper/producer DJ Quik was in Hawaii when the Tsunami struck. He offered firsthand accounts from his Twitter account of Tsunami alarms and police evacuating citizens from local beaches. Quik urged his followers to “Please pray for the people in Japan who’s [sic] lives are slipping away as we speak. This is a real emergency. The Hawaiian Islands are guaranteed to be inundated by rouge waves in less than 3 hours…”
During Quik’s last update, he said that other than some rain his area was all clear. ABC reports that earlier Friday afternoon officials downgraded the area from tsunami warning to a less dangerous tsunami advisory. This is the second time in roughly a year that Hawaii and the U.S. West coast faced a massive tsunami threat. A magnitude-8.8 earthquake in Chile spawned warnings on Feb. 27, 2010, but smaller waves were much did little damage to most areas.
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