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Waves the water is first pulled out. kind of like a regular wave. that's the same thing. except a much larger magnitude. this isn't just a quick wave. this is a 5-15 behind it push of water temperature it recedes, then all of it comes forward. if you see this dramatic drop in that water level immediately where the reefs are exposed, there is a major movement of water that is about to move onshore. we are seeing another one. one thing -- just to say something about thattere quake from chile. we did see a tsunami wave in hawaii from that. as high as feet in maui. on the big island five feet. how...

Anxio angle, hawaii is more in the direct path than the west coast. so every island included thp. and you big island had an earthe itself this morning, a 4.6, tiny in comparison, because lot going on out there. here is what's different compared to the chilean one. that was over land. this one was under water. that displaces water much more. and something that we have to look out for in hawaii is it comes in waves. it's not just one large wave. it will come in waves and then it will recede and it will almost look like it gets sucked back out ahead of another tsunami wave. you mentioned, too, th...

>> what you are describing there, ginger, is the fact that the sea floor gets more and more shallow. >> right. >> therefore the churning of the water as it comes slower, in other words the wave slows down, but it gets higher and higher like the waves you see on the coast of california. except this is, of course, a tsunami wave. the concern might be when we look at the west coast, is how flat the land is and what sort of breakers there are. san diego, the beaches there, southern california, san francisco, which basically doesn't have much of a breaker there. only ten feet tall. then there are o...

They are watching and waiting. an hour from now we should see the effects. the island of kauai in hawaii has already seen a tsunami wave, it was 1-2 feet. this is from the island of oahu. this is waikiki beach. we have been watching this water recede. then it comes back in slowly again. then it recedes. we have seen that two or three times. what you cannot see in the frame is there are people walking up and down the beach in waikiki. remember they have done that vertical evacuation sending all the people in the hotels up to the higher floors. oahu is feeling the effects and it will go down the...

A.m. we'll continue to track those. >> all right ginger, thank you very much. >> ginger zee looking at the effects of the tsunami. some of her earlier visuals we are showing there. the tsunami wave can wraparound the island. it's not just one coast. i don't know if we can go back to the map, the epicenter was on the east coast. the tsunami waves can wraparound kind of like the way the ripples in a pool is or in the bathtub when you have that force. the ripples of the water move around, hit the sides and that is, of course, a concern we have seen in previous large earthquakes. this is termed th...