Video has emerged showing people brazenly ignoring the blaring tsunami sirens sounding on Hawaii's Waikiki Beach.
While some on the iconic beach in Oahu heeded the warning on Tuesday, others were completely unfazed and kept swimming or hanging out on the sand.
An 8.8 magnitude earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami alerts across Hawaii, Alaska and the west coast of the mainland United States.
Some beachgoers who chose to evacuate Waikiki and move deeper into Honolulu were shocked that swimmers chose to possibly put themselves and others at risk by sticking around.
'I went straight home,' Oahu resident Rami Abdallah told Hawaii News Now. 'I just feel like when there's a tsunami warning, people should be very serious about it. They shouldn't think it's a joke because it's life-threatening if it does happen.'
