This is the moment terrified British tourists were left stranded as cruise ships abandoned ports amid tsunami warnings after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia this morning.
Evacuations were ordered in Hawaii, Japan, Russia, Colombia and part of the U.S. West coast after the quake hit near Russia’s eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, casting out 15ft waves across the Pacific.
Panicked tourists took to social media to share their desperation as cruise ships appeared to hastily depart from Hawaii without passengers.
One TikTok user, @demifreeman, posted a video of people frantically running down a port towards their ship on the social media site.
The clip said: ‘POV: tsunami in Hawaii and your cruise is leaving without people. Actually insane.
‘Actually insane,’ the passenger said in the caption, adding: ‘We are going to be in the middle of the tsunami in the ocean.’
The US Tsunami Warning Centers said waves exceeding three metres above the tide level were possible along some coasts of northwestern Hawaiian islands.
Governor Josh Green said flights in and out of the island of Maui had been cancelled as a precaution, before authorities cancelled a coastal evacuation order.
Click this link for the original source of this article.
Author: Ray Hilbrich
This content is courtesy of, and owned and copyrighted by, https://www.offthepress.com and its author. This content is made available by use of the public RSS feed offered by the host site and is used for educational purposes only. If you are the author or represent the host site and would like this content removed now and in the future, please contact USSANews.com using the email address in the Contact page found in the website menu.
