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Miles per hour to reach the coastal region. but if you're out on the water sitting there on a boat, you just feel a little bump. nothing at all that would make you think something is going on. but as the wave approaches the coastal regions, all that energy has to go somewhere. it gets right to the coast and develops what we call the run-up event here where the run-up of energy where we have the waves begin to go up the coast, that sets up from going just a few inches of wave height to about 20, 30 feet of wave height associated with a tsunami. that causes some of the devastation we see along t...

Surface which niche shaves the wave one travels onshore and reaches within tens of minutes and caughts the largest devastation the other travels offshore towards the other side of the ocean. >> sean: when you think of the magnitude of 23 to 30 foot waves, herman, and the force and speed of which this occurs as we can see in the i am s in the pictures, i mean, with very little effort, -- it just knocked over one house after another it is a seeming endless stream of water that never stops. look at these pictures unhere particular areas where every -- under here. there are particular areas where ...

Wave one travels onshore and reaches within tens of minutes and caughts the largest devastation the other travels offshore towards the other side of the ocean. >> sean: when you think of the magnitude of 23 to 30 foot waves, herman, and the force and speed of which this occurs as we can see in the i am s in the pictures, i mean, with very little effort, -- it just knocked over one house after another it is a seeming endless stream of water that never stops. look at these pictures unhere particular areas where every -- under here. there are particular areas where every home, car knocked over an...

Than the shaking from the earthquake, in some communities. then again, the shaking damp was also severe in other communities. so it was spotty like that, and, of course, the most low-lying areas where the wave height was the greatest, damped most heavily by the tsunami. >> kenneth, can a large earthquake in japan generate another large earthquake on another faultline? perhaps here in the united states? >> well we don't see it quite like that. so it has been an interesting string of events that we've had, the december 2004 sumatra and the indian ocean tsunami, earthquake last year and the sue n...

Concentrated along the northern california area. i want to speak to lisa eekers, santa cruz port area, santa cruz, 80 miles south of san francisco. lisa, i know you work by the water. you work with a lot of boats. tell me how big the waves are that you've seen and what kind of impact that's been on the boats there. >> we've started experiencing surge from the tsunami, the first tsunami around 8:00 this morning, and the wave height is not what's been significant but rather the surge through the harbor. our harbor is oriented north-south. we see a massive input of water that comes in and travers...