A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake near Russia\u2019s Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami waves that hit Hawaii, California, and Japan. \u201cMore than two million people across 21 prefectures\u201d in Japan faced evacuation advisories. No casualties have been reported so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Hawaiians fled to higher ground, social media erupted over claims that Oprah Winfrey had not opened her private road on Maui to aid evacuees. One viral video said, \u201cWe\u2019re stuck and a tsunami is coming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Online users accused Oprah of delaying access to a \u201cpotentially life-saving route.\u201d Posts read, \u201cWhy hasn\u2019t Oprah opened her road?\u201d and \u201cOpen the road Oprah!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The road was eventually opened, confirmed by Maui police and a spokesperson: \u201cAny reports otherwise are false\u2026 The road will remain open as long as necessary.\u201d Police also confirmed Oprah\u2019s road was accessible in their official update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tsunami Strikes Pacific After Major Quake A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake near Russia\u2019s Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami waves that hit Hawaii, California, and Japan. \u201cMore than two million people across 21 prefectures\u201d in Japan faced evacuation advisories. No casualties have been reported so far. Oprah Criticized Amid Hawaii Evacuation As Hawaiians fled to higher ground, social…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2832,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}