India, July 30 -- A woman has shared a TikTok video where she explains why she is refusing to leave her condo in Honolulu, Hawaii, despite a tsunami warning. Shelby K Blackburn explained in her TikTok video that she would have to walk 15 to 20 minutes with her toddler to reach a tsunami-safe area - a journey she is unwilling to undertake.

Instead, Shelby is planning to wait out the tsunami in her condo near Waikiki beach - a popular tourist area that is currently seeing a mass exodus as panicked locals and travellers try to escape.

A tsunami has already hit coastal areas of Russia's Kuril Islands and Japan's large northern island of Hokkaido after a powerful, 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia early Wednesday. Warni...