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Waves over the next several hours here. just imagine if you are in essentially in an airport and you're taking a plane and you're going to another country, the plane flows about 500 miles an hour. that's about the speed that the wave is going to travel here. so you're not going to get from chile to hawaii in just a few minutes, right. even if you're traveling on an airplane. so we do have hours upon hours to warn folks across the rest of the pacific basis and that's why the warning has gone out for this 8.8, that is likely going to be causing immediate destruction across chile, but the propaga...

That can cause with an 8.8. you have to think back, not even samoa last year, where we had the 9.1, and the tech tonics are similar. but what i want to do is fly in here and show you the coastal communities here that have been impacted. they had no chance, densely populated, very close to the epicenter. this is one of them here, talcahuano, it's summer time, a lot of folks are vacationing here, as well, and you have to add the population on top of that. i have to believe with the data i've been seeing here that this entire region likely has been under water from that tsunami with an 8.8 being ...

If it's 8.8 hold, we're talking easily one of the biggest in recorded history that goes back a century. we have this map for you at cnn.com, which is important to keep in mind. this shows you the most powerful quakes ever, but they're not the same as the deadliest quakes ever. and that's something we'll be talking to you about during the day today. how powerful the quake is does not automatically translate into one of the deadliest. depends on where it hit, how close to a population center, and the strength of the structures in that area. before we go, let me pop in here. some of the first twi...

We saw last year in samoa. so you can imagine here that we are going to be seeing as the light begins to come in some severe destruction. not only from the earthquake at 8.8, which is a great earthquake, but from the tsunami. and keep in mind, if you think about haiti, we have that 7.0 with the strike flip with the plates going side to side. that doesn't generate that upward lift that you get -- that you need for a tsunami, right? 7.0 when you get from 7.0 to 8.0, that's 32 times the magnitude, you multiply that by 32 and you get 1,024, which would be a 9.0, so we're close, close basically tal...

Basin and it's going to affect even more people. >> yeah, we have a tsunami wave recorded as high as 9 feet. that's just giving us early indications of what folks there are dealing with. let's get more now from cnn's international. give us an update when it comes to the aftershocks that we understand could last up to weeks. >> as we saw with haiti, they can for hours and days and continue to weeks. but i want to talk about the tsunami situation here because i must tell you that this is something you don't see every day. the entire pacific basin is basically under a widespread tsunami warning. ...