the motorola xoom tablet. the first tablet powered by android 3.0, this is a fox news alert from new york. breaking news now out of japan. a massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake shaking buildings in tokyo. you can see smoke there in toke just a moment the pacific tsunami warning center in hawaii is saying a tsunami warning is in effect for a large part of the pacific. the tsunami warning, in effect for japan, russia, the marqes islands. it is also issued for guam, thailand, the philippines and hawaii. japan s nhk said a small tsunami hit the shore near the epicenter around 3:00 p.m. local time. they warn that a tsunami as high as 20 feet could strike the
which means they are on alert in guam, taiwan, the philippines, indonesia and also hawaii. so you are talking about a large, large area in the pacific where they are really going to be watching what is going on. a small tsunami has struck off the coast of japan at 3:00 p.m., which was much wasn t much time after the quake hit at 2:46. they re saying that that tsunami was small, a smaller one, but they expect that there could be one as high as 20 feet. that that could strike the coast near myagi, which they are saying is close toast that epicenter, where the quake hit. we are bringing you these pictures as they are coming n. it s really hard to tell if that s a bridge that may be collapsed during the earthquake. or what s going on there. it looks pretty chaotic. you don t really see anybody looking.
from a couple of buildings in tokyo. we have lots of locations along japan s coast with footage, showing severe flooding and cars and boats submerged and carried along by fast-moving waters and a large ship, swept away, by the tsunami. so that rammed directly into a break water, near myagi, which we are told is at the epistrsm epistrsm at the epicenter. the quake struck about 2:45 local time. by 3:00, they had had at least one small tsunami. since that struck, there have been a series of smaller aftershocks, i say smaller aftershocks, but one of them is 7.4 magnitude. so that s not small. that occurred about 30 minutes after the big one of, after the 8.8. we are going to go ahead and go again to actually, we re going to go to our meteorologist here. hi, rick.
tsunami, as high as 20 feet, could strike near the coast of miyagi, which they are saying is the closest to the epicenter at this point. that agency say that this quake struck around 2:45 their time on friday. and it struck about 80 miles off the eastern coastline, shortly after they issued this tsunami warning for a large part of the pacific. so far, we are not receiving any reports as far as injuries or anybody who may have been killed by this. but smoke could be seen flowing in the middle of tokyo. we showed you pictures of that earlier. we are efforting more as we speak. but again, if you are just joining us, this is a massive 7.9 magnitude quake, shortly after it hit, the pacific tsunami warning center out of hawaii issuing a warning for just a large swath of the pacific. you are talking major countries that are bracing. and we are getting new video in. right there, you can see,
maybe just joining us? one of the things that one has to worry about at this point, knowing that tsunamis can get across oceans as large as the pacific, the tsunami should get to hawaii in about four or five hours from now, i m just guessing. and to the western coast of the u.s., probably in 9 to 10 hours from now. so the people on the west coast in places in crest city, at the end of a very narrow, long cove, if you will. should be warned and possibly evacuated. the people in crest city were struck by a tsunami in the 1960s in alaska, from an earthquake, something on the order of 10 to 20 people were killed in that suup that tsunami. i want you to say that again. you said that the u.s. coast, some places along the united states coastline should be worried, even though there hasn t been, tech call a tsunami warning issued for them?