From the Kakaʻako Emergency Response Group at 3:55 a.m.
Operations will go on as usual today, Thursday, September 17 at the John A. Burns School of Medicine and the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center, in Kakaʻako.
By early last night, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center determined that effects from a 1 p.m. (Wednesday, Sept. 16) earthquake off of Chile would not produce major affects to land in Hawaiʻi.
Tsunami impacts were expected to do no more than cause a slight increase in wave levels and unusual ocean currents at state shorelines. Officials urged swimmers and others stay out of the ocean from 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 17, and that boaters be cautious. Despite no reports of damage on major Hawaiian Islands by 3:53 a.m. today, a cautionary ADVISORY was likely to remain posted through 7 a.m. Thursday morning.
The Kakaʻako Campus of the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) and the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center are not in, but are very close to, the official tsunami evacuation zone.
Do I come to work Thursday?
Yes, the Dean and Interim Cancer Center Director, Jerris Hedges, MD, advises that workers are expected to be at their jobs, students and faculty at their assignments and that operations at JABSOM and UH Cancer Center will go on as usual.
In future emergencies
Kakaʻako employees are advised to monitor the JABSOM news website blog http://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-media/uh-med-now/, and our social media outlets including Twitter @uhmed www.twitter.com/uhmed and Facebook www.facebook.com/
UH employees who work in the Gold Bond Building should also expect to go to work as usual on Thursday. If conditions change, we will alert you to that via this website.