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>> quite extraordinary. we're joining on the line by an oceanographer of the south coast of england this is quite enormous, the earthquake that has struck japan. give us a bit more background information, if you will. >> well, the earthquake itself is huge, but what's more important perhaps is the fact that it happened beneath the sea and this has created an expansive tsunami. it's happening at a great pace. it happened offshore so it would only have taken the initial wave about 15 to 20 minutes before it hit the coast. now, from the earthquake and the wave hitting, there's no time to get any ...

The irregularity is so different that literally in the same country we could have the arrival of a 5-foot wave and a few kilometers away a 20-foot wave-plus. that's the problem with this. we know when they will arrive but we don't know how bad they will be. new zealand at 18:23. nicaragua, now we're getting at 22:00 gmt. i'll stop there. if we have the map with the other cities on there, let's switch that and put that behind me. we have warnings that extend essentially to mexico, peru, ecuador. all of these regions are going to be impacted at some point or noochlt we have plenty of time to war...

And see. >> how will that impact the coast of taiwan? >> reporter: at the moment -- well, it's very close to the mountain areas, but there are many people. it's a populated city and on the northern coast it's populated with people. it's going to impact a lot of people living in these areas. -- if the waiver ins are too high and wash up into tland. ana? >> anthony, what are the authorities saying? as you say the wave has hit some parts of the country but we know over what, some next 15, 20 minutes it will continue to hit other parts of the country. as you said, we're looking at a live picture t...

50-foot waves crashing on shore. we're going to continue to monitor that as the wave propagates further to the east. again, this is one tsunami with many, many waves coming in. again, let's go through some of the countries here. essentially there are over 50 countries that are under a tsunami warning. that means that we are expecting a tsunami arrival. over 50 countries in the pacific. there are watches posted for california, groon, and alaska. the left of us are under a warning. let's start off with the next arrival. 9:17 gmt. are you watching us from taiwan, that's about 30 minutes away now....

Right, the secondary or third or even fourth wave are the ones that are more catastrophic as opposed to tin irritable wave. that's what we're forecasting here. possible tsunami times for the estimated arrival of the initial wave here. 15:35 to 18:45 gmt. fiji at 1537. new zealand at 1720. again, the different here the time. you see chile at 23:03. the wave is going to take longer to get to the further southern areas here of the southern philippines. i'm really concerned about the tiny islands as well. there's indonesia there that's going to be impacted as well. remember, kind of think when we ...