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Oahu’s tsunami evacuation maps will be simplified for the first time in 19 years, in response to the updated ocean-floor data.The city Department of Emergency Management will clutch public outreach workshops on the 21 maps outlining zones that must be abandoned. That’s two more regions than in the 1991 set of maps.

Zones with the most important expanded evacuation area include Waikiki, downtown Honolulu, Maili and Honolulu Harbor. City officials added two more maps that did not have an emigration plan: Pearl Harbor and Kaneohe Bay.

Overall, more land is wrapped by the evacuation zones. But some areas, such as Sandy Beach, saw their evacuation zones minimize, Kaku said.