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Thing are probably the reason why theres less fatalities. >> tell me about wood structures compared to the haitian structures that were on reinforced concrete. >> unreinforced brick buildings they cannot withstand up-or-down motion or side-to-side motion. wood structures can absorb some of that. wood-frame houses are a much better building material to use in an earthquake-prone area. >> well get back to this. this is going to show where the wave, why the wave was generated and where its going. >...

Potential waves on easter island or some of those islands there off the coast of chile of having a wave of 30 or 40 meters high. >> wow. >> is that even possible? >> not -- i dont think thats possible from this event. >> okay. >> plus the wave has -- is passing each island as we speak. theyre about now there should be reports of whats actually happening there. i think we may have a water level gauge there, well be checking that pretty soon too to see what that is. but 30 meters is a bit high. >>...

From the capital itself. so thats the good news, but its so strong, its not -- it wasnt quite on top of this epicenter like port-au-prince was. but this was so much stronger that the amount of shaking and energy released certainly would be equivalent to haiti if not more even though its farther away. weve got the shaking incidents, which will be ongoing with aftershocks and the other thing were dealing with now is a potential for tsunami. and that, i think, is a greater more widespread deal that...

How much time will pass before the last tsunami wave comes through, do you think? >> oh, it should be at least six hours. therell be many, many waves. and whatll happen is civil defense will give -- when we think the amplitudes have decreased, civil defense will give an all clear that its safe to come back. but i would stay away until civil defense gives the all clear. it could be many hours. and the second, third, fourth, fifth wave can be larger than the initial wave. >> good advice, barry her...

Know where you are here until the wave hits you. the good news is we have computers that do this timing, how long it takes for this wave to come from chile, from the epicenter, from right where the earthquake was and how far it will go. and were still watching. there are darked buoys, its just a name because the government love acronyms but they put a sensor on the bottom of the ocean on a line on a buoy on top of the water and it can measure it down here. it measures the pressure of the water a...

Miami beach, 3.6 foot wave. as the water goes up and up, thats on top of a high tide, then that will be a fairly significant little surge. you dont want to be out there on the beach. do you remember, rick, what we talked about when they were doing the surfing contest in california? there was one wave, maybe it was oregon, the wave came in and knocked people down. thats the kind of thing you are going to see, the inundation. >> we refer to it as a rogue wave. >> it is so heavy that water weighs s...

>> so the length and the distance of slip. >> lets go to a more prettier graphic here. they slipped almost 1,000 kilometers, 600 miles. you dont know how much it slipped until you all multiply these aftershocks out. >> wait for the aftershock to come in and over days or weeks. >> this is the original quake. >> thats right. >> 8.8. after shocks all of the way through here. as we measure this, youre going to say from here, which is santiago, right there, all of the way down to this so far, thats w...

A.m. local time. what the size of that wave would be, we still dont know, and well have to keep digging as we go through time here. >> and just to be clear, i heard you correctly, hawaii, but also advisories in california and washington state? >> an advisory, basically means keep a heads up, they may upgrade that to a watch or warning, but we very well will probably see some sort of sea level rise along the west coast, not sure if well see an entire wave that could be destructive. but the adviso...

The president being briefed on the situation. back to the tsunami. wave of energy, zipping across the pacific ocean at 500 miles an hour. expected to arrive at the island of hawaii sometime around 4:05 eastern time, about 11:05 local time. were told by experts on the highland they expect that the wave will be six, maybe seven feet, its an inexact science, but thats what theyre preparing for and they dont think it will be devastating, but nothing to take lightly. a wave from a tsunami, were told,...

After that. are they evacuating everybody from all aspects of the coastline and this wave is going to be approaching from the south and east? would northern coastlines be a little bit safer or is this a situation where the islands as small as they are, its all encompassing? >> it is all encompassing, rob. this type of energy is not like an ocean generative swell where we see most of the energy on the direction where that energy is coming from. this type of energy has in the past several times wr...