covered at fox. there are sirens around the island. there is a significant police presence anyway because of the maximum amount of tourists on honolulu and waikkiki specifically. i am not a scientist in this realm, but the tsunami will come at a certain angle as well. parts of the island, i suspect the east parts of the island because they are away from japan would be less affected. we saw that with the tsunami in southeast asia. one side of phuket, leveled. the other side like nothing touched it. you will see the same thing if it moves across the pacific in our direction, you will see the same type of damage and destruction as it moves away from the epicenter of the quake. you will see one side of the islands again if it moves across the pacific, one side will be leveled and the other will be fine. and it also depends on the elevation. some of the islands in the pacific, there is a lot of
going off in hawaii. so they are trying to let people know to head for higher ground. that s what we were talking about. once you get the warning and you know it is headed for you, what do you do? you don t want to be caught in a situation where you are in a home or in a vehicle traveling along when something like this hits. the fact the sirens are going off, they are giving people a lot of time to try and get out of there. anything else you are hearing from the pacific tsunami warning system at this point? yeah, and in the one difference is hawaii is a mountainous area and smaller islands. if people have time they can get to higher ground easily. that s not a problem. but it doesn t mean a lot of damage couldn t be done to a lot of property and to the people who have homes along the coast. in that case it is good for human life, but potentially very bad for people s possessions in hawaii. we talked earlier about the
waikiki has become popular. you will see thousands of people out this time of night. you can bet there is a significant operation going on right now. so the sirens are going off. evacuations are under way in hawaii and the low-lying areas. a tsunami warning for the hawaii an islands and out along the west coast, california, oregon, washington , there is a tsunami watch under underway right now. i will toss it back to marianne with more information. thanks, greg. and to expand on what you are talking about, the watch alert expanding to cover the entire pacific basin. and now we are talking australia, new zealand and mexico and central and south america, huge swath of the pacific under a warning sorry, it is a watch. you are talking about the warning in affect for hawaii
affect. and that is for all islands that were in the path of the potential damage from the tsunami. hawaii high s evacuation zone are waikiki beach. the main hotel and tourist hub on the island of oahu. the hawaii an emergency management officials are urging residents to remain a hundred feet away from the inland waterways. the island of kuai is expected to be first hit because the tsunami was advancing from the west. it should hit hawaii 2:59 east coast and speaking of the pacific coast, from point conception to the oregon border north of there is now under a tsunami warning. the rest of the west coast
there had been some warnings some sirens that had gone off in japan. if you don t have electricity it gives you a warning. in hawaii it is good to get that information out. places that are farther off to the west, the western part of the pacific, japan, russia, the philippines, and in some cases, the islands where people don t have as strong an infrastructure and as great of a messaging system and that potentially will be causing problems. thank you so much again, and we will be coming back to you. meanwhile, i want to go ahead and recap what is going on for anyone just joining us. a magnitude 8.9 earthquake slamming along japan s eastern coast on friday. we know it unleashed a 13-foot tsunami there that swept away