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Flopping and we all heard stories and we thought here it comes. it comes in not like a wave, comes in one and three minutes another one and five minutes another one and just keeps coming and still our governor has said all clear but we are still kind of watching because you never know how these happen. scientifically and nature like i said the whales and all that all those signs looked like it was coming. >> geraldo: and then how miraculously passed you by. dog, you are already one of the luckie...

Skepticism might blunt a citizen response? >> this is just human nature. people say it was a dud, all this preparation and nothing happened. where was the money shot and the buy it began tick wave toppling the buildings in waikiki beach. we have to tell people that sometimes the monster event actually does happen in our lifetimes. >> geraldo: granted and that is exactly so but doesnt our experience today indicate to you as a scientist that perhaps the science has not matched the reality yet in t...

We cannot predict the exact height of the wave when it makes landfall. >> geraldo: and in dare i say a hawaiian typical stormy day you have waves that would dwarf a 6-foot tsunami, they would wallow the tsunami and we soot surfers with the supermodeller waves probably ten times what tautens was today. >> thats right. some people could say hey, what is all the fuss about, i have seen bigger waves before. >> geraldo: i actually saw some surfers out there today. >> look what happened with the sumat...

Navy and the huge historic pearl harbor base to send destroyers and frigates out to sea where the impact of the tsunami would not be felt. is it like a wave on the ocean that doesnt break, you float up and when it crashes on the coast is, that what it is? >> if you were on an ocean liner and the tsunami goes but you wouldnt notice it. it is a slip a few inches tall but it goes all the way down to the bottom of the ocean. it hits ground and the bottom slows down and the top keeps going and the sp...

All encompassing the entire pacific basin, with the exception of california, oregon and washington right now. they may upgrade that to a watch or a warning. but as justin mentioned, the wave expected to get to hawaii at 11:00 a.m. local time, about 4:00 p.m. here in the -- on the eastern time zone. this 8.8 magnitude quake rocking the coastline of chile at 3:30 a.m. local -- their local time this morning. >> the problem is twofold here. weve got the tsunami warnings that are up, people prepare f...

Tsunamis clear out? >> to tell you the truth, i dont know, but by now, we should have those measurements. i mean, i think that some of these water level measurements that we have along the coast of chile should be indicative of the sort of heights were seeing there. and for example, in talcahuano, we saw the 7.7, which is more like the 14 to 15-foot wave. and up to 8 or 10 feet, valporizo 8 to 10 feet. >> if you could give us a brief what to do, what not to do if you live in hawaii. theres not j...

So have to analyze the period from trough to crest and get that figured out. but its going to affect a lot of people. and the advisories posted for the north american coastline and what an advisory means heads up. they havent issued a warning. >> california, washington state, all the coastline. >> all the coastline. my guess is theres going to be some sort of sea level rise. but at this point they dont think theres going to be a wave that would be damaging or an inconvenience, but that may chang...

Lets make this 800 times more powerful than the haitian earthquake. thats what happened last night under the water. very close to the coast of chile. and why does it matter that it was very close? well, its part of where this subduction zone is. we talk about the trench thats offshore. we talk about one plate. these plates that are all moving around the earth and have been for millions of years. this plate shifted underneath the land, underneath the water and the water budged out. as the water b...

Waves over the next several hours here. just imagine if you are in essentially in an airport and youre taking a plane and youre going to another country, the plane flows about 500 miles an hour. thats about the speed that the wave is going to travel here. so youre not going to get from chile to hawaii in just a few minutes, right. even if youre traveling on an airplane. so we do have hours upon hours to warn folks across the rest of the pacific basis and thats why the warning has gone out for th...

Rough time getting around. the president of cnn chile told us it lasted about 45 seconds. cnn tapping into its worldwide resources, nobody can cover this international event like we can. and now my friends in north america and the u.s., this is going to affect you, as well. from hawaii to potentially the west coast in the form of a tsunami. lets get on the phone now with barry herrshman. barry, can you give us some perspective here? i think the biggest question we have is how large of a wave do ...