Bricky Rolling Waves News Today

Were afraid of having our place washed away. weve been packing our stuff up into the car to vark eigevacuat area. we hear the third wave of civil defense going out right now. so as far as the prior one, we had the tsunami warning earlier. had about one or two foot of waves. this time it looks to be a little bit worse. hopefully not, but we do hear police running through the neighborhoods asking people to evacuate the area and like i said, we only live about a quarter mile from the beach and defi...

Bit better at it this. >> its about 12:23 in the morning, i believe, there in hawaii. the good news is its dark and that means that the people are not out there. i recall following the chilean earthquake last year, so many people took to the shore line to see what would happen. the good news was hawaii was not hit other than just some more frequent sort of bricky rolling waves and very gentle nature, so that wasnt so bad. but -- >> its not really gentle. it appears that way, but its very much li...

Affected. we have a tsunami warning stretch ping from parts of washington down to the mexican border. so this is a huge event and any warning in weather or now in tsunami or earthquake wise, it means its happening. so we dont have an idea of how large the waves will be. i thought that was interesting, too, as we were talking about not just one large wave, but multiple waves. and what happens often, too, youll have one and then the water recedes and it draws people out, maybe they want to take pi...

That could cause damage. im sure that people will be out of harms way well before the first wave arrives, which is supposed to be around -- well, in hilo, i dont know what it is. 3:30 or so. >> hilo on the big island of hawaii for those not familiar. as we move across the pacific while there is a tsunami watch all up and down the united states west coast, it would seem the trajectory goes to the south. we are looking mostly at the state of california, predicting when the waves will hit. we have ...

The hawaiian islands, what do you think the height of waves will be by the time it hits the west coast of california? >> caller: the best modelling we have now is fairly small. i dont know the current title cycle. the west coast, it takes roughly ten to 11 hours from the time of the earthquake for the tsunami to hit. if it happens to be high tide, it could be worse. it looks like the wave heights are going to be only maybe as much as 40 centimeters at most. apart from crescent city, a bay that r...