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And those guys are in hawaii. i don't have their message out right now. the one we have, a tsunami advisory for california and alaska. there's actually, the way that the wave is moving, it looks like it's going to miss california, i'm sorry, not california, oregon, washington and british columbia. but the thing that i want to stress here is that the local emergency managers in your community, if you're on the west coast, will tell you if you need to evacuate and tell you what you need to know. so certainly don't you know, take any action thaw don't need to. >> john, real glad you say british c...

Generated, that could cause damage all along the coastlines of all islands in our 50th state. i'm joined right now live on the phone by the director of the pacific northwest seismic network. john, good morning to you. >> caller: good morning. >> let's get your assessment of this 8.8. puts it in perspective for me. >> caller: the coast of south america is prone to large earthquakes, the biggest one we've seen in 1960, even bigger than this, 9.5. but late last night, the earthquake that happened broke about 300 miles of the coastline. and probably shifted it about ten feet or so, generating the ...

Ground shifts suddenly. probably in the matter of just a few seconds, the whole earthquake probably takes about a minute. that's what caused the ground to shake. >> so would that be visible. could you literally see an open area of fault line i'm just going to say, i'm from california and the scene of the san andreas fault line, you could see where the san andreas has split the earth. is that what you're going to see in chile? >> caller: it's similar, but the motion is in a different direction. in california, the ground is shifting to the north and onto the east, to the south. so at the sideway...