Locals along the New Jersey shore might have been in for a fright when residents received an alert that a tsunami was headed their way. The National Tsunami Warning Center sent a test alert message out on Monday, but the Harvey Cedars Police Department retransmitted the message out via their local alert system. "Tsunami Warning until 2:06PM," the department tweeted at 1:28 p.m. with a link to the alert from the center, which clearly stated the message was "for test purposes only." "According to @NWS_MountHolly they were testing their system. We apologize for the scare and are working on a solution to prevent this from happening again," Chief Robert Burnaford said.

Source: Fox News April 30, 2019 01:59 UTC