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“With our model, we can explore what might happen to the water flow as it approaches the coast."
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“With our model, we can explore what might happen to the water flow as it approaches the coast."
It's all part of this pacific -- well, the borders of the pacific plate. as i was mentioning earlier, we now have seen australia, this massive rupture of the northwest side of the pacific plate. we had the 22nd earthquake in christchurch. an earlier one also in september in new zealand. that's southwest side of the plate. a huge earthquake in chile last year. 8.7, i think in magnitude, and the southeast side, and the one, therefore, untouched thus far, untouched side of this pacific plate is california, oregon, washington, and british columbia where there is, i mentioned, two serious faults. t...
We're expecting the tsunami wave to reach hawaii at 2100utc, which is about 3:00 p.m. eastern standard time. >> for the folks who are still there in hawaii who are not evacuating what, can they expect to see? >> i can't speculate on that. tsunami effects are very localized and with each earthquake, there are so many variables that things are different. i really can't say. >> it obviously doesn't help the matter because of the fact that there are these strong aftershocks that are also adding to the concern to the folks living in hawaii and the pacific area around there as well. for the folks wh...