Will the Tsunami Impact All Hawaiian Islands?

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A tsunami warning was issued for all Hawaiian islands following a magnitude 7.7 earthquake near Masset, Canada, on October 27, 2012. The warning prompted urgent action to protect lives and property, with the first tsunami wave expected to arrive at 10:28 PM HST. Reports indicated that the earthquake, which occurred due to oblique-thrust faulting at the Pacific-North America plate boundary, was not expected to generate a significant tsunami due to the nature of the fault movement. Experts noted that the strike-slip movement typically does not displace water vertically, which is necessary for tsunami generation. The situation was closely monitored, and while there was initial concern, the tsunami warning was eventually deemed short-lived as the earthquake's impact was less severe than anticipated. Additionally, there were reports of a shallow 6.3 magnitude earthquake offshore, indicating ongoing seismic activity in the region.
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My wife is actually in Hawaii right now on business.

They were on a bus tour when the warning was issued and she called me around 9:30 HST (2:30 AM Central where I am). The tour bus took them to high ground where they had to stay. It wasn't until about 3.5 hours later that she told me she was back at the hotel.

I had seen the news of the earthquake hours earlier, but at the time they were saying no Tsunami warning was going to be issued.
 
The earthquake was under an island, and not close to the fault.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000df7n#summary

USGS said:
Tectonic Summary
The October 28th, 2012 (October 27 at the location of the epicenter) M 7.7 earthquake south of Masset, Canada, occurred as a result of oblique-thrust faulting near the plate boundary between the Pacific and North America plates. At the location of this event, the Pacific plate moves approximately north-northwest with respect to the North America plate at a rate of approximately 50 mm/yr.

This earthquake is likely associated with relative motion across the Queen Charlotte fault system offshore of British Columbia, Canada. Studies of tectonics in this region suggest plate motions are taken up by strike slip faulting parallel to the plate boundary, accompanied by lesser amounts of thrust motion to accommodate the oblique nature of the plate motion vector between the two plates with respect to the orientation of the main plate boundary fault structure. . . . .

Ward said he wasn't surprised the tsunami warning was short-lived because the strike-slip movement along the fault doesn't generally trigger tsunamis.

"To trigger a tsunami you need to have a vertical movement of the sea floor, and it's that vertical movement that displaces water and triggers the tsunami," he said. "Because it's sliding across each other, you're not generally moving the water."

There was a relatively shallow 6.3 mag offshore
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000dg06#summary

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/10/28/bc-quake.html

There seems to be an ongoing swarm in the area.
 
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