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On the phone. good morning, bryan. >> good morning. >> he heard about the tsunami warnings for hawaii and united states and what is the concern for hawaii and united states and other islands. >> a tsunami was generated from the chile earthquake . we confirm that it is damaging in some areas. the modeling that we have done here, tsunami will propagate over the whole ocean and could be damaging in many places . that's why we issued a wide tsunami. including hawaii. american samoa and potentially as far as guam in the western pacific. >> we talk about the numbers. people get lost because we are n...

Give us a sense of the size of the wave hitting indonesia and what we can expect as the waves hit toward the united states. >> it would be totally different. 2004 tsunami was from a large earthquake, a 9.3 and that spanned a huge area and that jenerated a tsunami that was unprecedented. so the tsunami we are seeing today will be much smaller and more on the order of 3 or four feet, something like that. that is certainly enough to cause damage and dangerous if you are swimming in the water. probably not the sort of thing thal destroy whole cities. >> there might be a silver lining there. bryan ...

Where people start to get ready or is there an alarm going off in hawaii. >> great question and certainly thanks to what happened in indonesia and from the bam auchy quake we have warning systems in place. people will know about this in hawaii. it would be around 11:00 local time in hawaii that we are dealing with this. >> it would be daylight hours and people would be awake and received the warning. >> the report from the national oceanic atmosphere just before we went on the air it was 12 hours from hitting the u.s. west coast it is moving northbound up the coast. >> the waves move out in a ...