they travel as far as the speed. this is rocket science here. this is the height of the waves and this is computer modeling now from noaa. this is the epicenter off of the coast of chile, and you can appreciate that this is over open water, i may say, and this is where you get the worst of it, the higher amplitude waves. agains you cannot extrapolate what is happening in the ocean along the shores. you can have a two-foot wave here and end up with a 20-foot wave depending upon the irregularity of the shorelines and the orientation of how that wave hits. that is why we can t say, okay, well, we know that one buoy is talking about a two-foot wave, so that by the time it arrives in japan, that is what you are going to get. well, not the case. that is why we can t say precisely how these vary. case in point, here we go, 2.34 meter in talcahuantalcahuano, c