we keep talking about a huge area affected by this, but i think what the viewers would like to know is what the perspective is on where the impact would be stronger. is it a 45-degree angle or a 95-degree angle, for example? i m so glad you asked, rick. there you go. here is the computer model, a simulation done by guy that is are smarter than any of you or us put together. here s where the earthquake happened. here s where the land mass moved under the ground. the land popped up and rebounded from being crushed down below that other plate. when the rebound occurred, it pushed water away. and this you know, we model weather, you can model what the wave is going to do. so, literally, it blasted away from south america. that right there would be the hawaiian island, so we are missing the main blast, but still, certainly, right in the middle of a 15 to 20-foot tsunami inundation on some of the beaches here. it also makes a difference on what the coast looks like. because this is blue,
buildings. that s what s going on. these are the images from chile that really paint the story and tell you of the devastation and the sense of urgency the people have there. now, rick and fredericka, let me tell you, the official death toll is 122. but let me caution you, that s officially from the government. and as we know in this kind of situation, that kind of number, unfortunately, always seems to go up. yeah, let me just put a caveat on that because this gives us a better understanding. when we first reported the earthquake in haiti, the first numbers came in about 150. and then 200. then we were thinking, well, what perspective does that give us? the perspective in a moment like this when you are covering something like this in the onset is to understand that these numbers will likely increase. and even within the last couple of hours, it s important to note that we saw this thing go from
miami beach, 3.6 foot wave. as the water goes up and up, that s on top of a high tide, then that will be a fairly significant little surge. you don t want to be out there on the beach. do you remember, rick, what we talked about when they were doing the surfing contest in california? there was one wave, maybe it was oregon, the wave came in and knocked people down. that s the kind of thing you are going to see, the inundation. we refer to it as a rogue wave. it is so heavy that water weighs so much and it will knock you down, take you out to sea and it will take your car out to the ocean as well. you were talking about the ring of fire, so i ll get to that here. from the top of the earthquakes and all the aftershocks all the way down to the bottom of the earthquake, it s been 400 miles. 400 miles of tearing in the atmosphere, in the earth here. and a tear, that is now a convergent tear. this is the nazca plate.
challenges that the chilean authorities are having to deal with right now, fed rick ka. all right. thank you so much, rafael. we appreciate that. we ll continue to check back with you. we ll have much more of continuing coverage of all that s taking place in chile and now the tsunami advisory affecting so many coasts, pacific coasts of the u.s., we are talking about asian coasts, australia, new zee land, it goes on. the focal point is hawaii in the 4:00 eastern hour. that s the expectation of when they could feel the tsunami. those of you who have been with us for some time, and some are just joining us because it is a saturday, it may take you a long time to figure out what s going on and to get your bearings on this. the point to be made, and chad myers illustrated this very well recently, there s a whole area of the pacific that is going to be incrementally effected by this earthquake off the coast of chile. it is not just chile itself. i apologize if i m sounding
to do this. if you have the water going this way, rick, you have the coast that looks like this, then all of a sudden like a lens of your eye that focuses the light, this would focus the wave and it would be much deeper back here in the back part of the which is what happened in bandocci. that s right. this is why all the coasts are being effected by this now. the big concern is hawaii. they are talking about the 4:00 eastern hour when the tsunami will be hit. a tsunami warning has been issued for oregon as well. we ll have much more coverage on the earthquake in chile. and now the effects of the earthquake, mainly a tsunami warning in hawaii right after this. how do the editors of consumers digest determine if a car is a best buy ?