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High, that is six feet high, this struck parts of french polynesia, but initially no damage has been reported. around the tonga cook islands they're evacuating the coastal areas and again, we're starting to hear some reports of that tsunami wave hitting the french polynesian islands with a wave up to about six feet high. people who have loved ones in chile will most likely turn to online alternatives to reach family and friends, i mean, during the haitian quake we got some of our best information initially from these social networking sites, like facebook and twitter. they're becoming the go-t...

An hour. so it's not like a wave you're used to seeing that comes on shore. it just keeps coming and coming and coming and people have been pulled out before. >> so, joe, let's say the first wave will hit of a tsunami. how far in terms of mileage can it be from one end of a tsunami to the end? when those waves will cease? i know you've talked about it in time terms, but in terms of distance? >> caller: well i personally didn't talk about distance, first of all because i don't know it off the top of my head. and second of all, it has a lot to do with how deep the bay is or the shoreline that's ...

Indonesia from several years back where the water literally just completely comes ashore and causes major damage. the fact that we're not seeing that right now, what does that tell us? >> a couple things. those will be the images that we'll all think of when we hear tsunami. but what you're seeing right here, those are wind waves. every wave you see when you go hang out at the beach it's from a wind wave. that's wind moves across the water, it's a friction. it forces the waves up and that's what we see every day on the beach. a tsunami wave is a very different thing. it is caused by the bottom...

9.5. it killed nearly 2,000 people and left 2 million homeless. it cost half billion dollars in damage and many aftershocks followed of magnitude 7.0 through november of that year. >> gregg: and the 1960 quake caused several tsunamis making incredible damage. the u.s. geological survey says a 35 foot wave hit near hilo caused $75 million in damage. tsunamis hit japan and philippines and u.s. west coastline, causing millions more and killing hundreds. >> julie: we're monitoring the situation on the ground following the earthquake. we're keeping a close eye on the coast of hawaii where tsunami w...

Earthquake. so right there being the earthquake, coming across the coast of chile, where you see the deeper reds are potential tsunami wave of around a meter. so you see all of this energy pulling off here towards the west, but you get across the coastal areas and all that energy, if the ocean is this deep as it's moving across, it gets in towards the shore where it's shallower and that water has to move somewhere and that's why it pushes onshore, in this case, towards the islands. but we're going to see this towards new zealand, towards australia. already feeling the effects across some of th...