talk to us about the issue of seeps that we re seeing in the floor of the gulf of mexico. apparently one was found about two miles away from the well bore itself. originally thought that maybe it was methane gas potentially oil coming up through the rock formations and the subsea floor, finding their way up through faults to the bottom of the ocean there. but now the thought is that these might be natural. what are you thinking about these seeps? could they be associated with this well or are they part of a natural process? obviously there s a huge amount of speculation about what these seeps are and the question i would ask is, do we really even know that they are seeps? how can we know whether it s methane, whether it s oil or just some natural process. but in answer to your question, yes, natural oil and gas seeps are normal in the gulf of mexico. they re normal in any ocean basin that has an active petroleum system, which is to
the pacific is a very large ocean basin here. and we re talking about one corner, southeast corner, where all of this activity started at 8:34 hawaii standard time last night, 14 1/2 hours now almost 15 hours. we re talking about a wave crossing the pacific. we re already seeing it hit portions of central america, south america, many islands in the south pacific. and now waiting for any potential impact here in hawaii with possible future impacts in japan, russia, alaska, and west coast of the united states. and a lot of this is very new science. we re learning as we go along. all right. you re listening to our afittal from kitv. now let s listen to kohn as they await first wave of the tsunami would have been spawned by the earthquake in chile. our photographer up here and pan to my left.
there will be. let s talk about hawaii. basically a 30,000-foot mountain. that s right. fairly steep relative to other basins that may have a larger tsunami that s not so steep. we re worried about hawaii because that s basically the next place. we re not worried about chile anymore. let s get to this. this is a time management of where the tsunami could be. so this was, what, six hours ago, more than that? sure. the reason we re not worried about chile anymore because the waves wouldn t be here now. right. already passed. here and moving up toward hawaii. that s right. it can go all the way to japan? it can travel across the ocean basin. we don t know exactly what it would be like in japan but certainly they have a warning in place, the possibility exists the tsunami could reach places like japan. does it lose some intensity or just keeps going? it will lose some intensity probably as it goes along, but again that s a lot of the function of what the shape of
turned up more than 4,000 miles from the last known location south of vietnam and thousands of miles from the search zone off australia. investigators now have a single piece of wreckage but they re still missing the rest of the plane. investigators are going to look carefully at the component, what kind of damage it sustained at impact, how it left the rest of the airplane. oceanographers say most of the indian ocean moves in a counterclockwise motion, so it is possible it could be off the coast of australia or anywhere in the indian ocean. these aren t very fast. it can take months to even years for debris to go somewhere, say, from western australia across the ocean basin to even madagascar. this morning, one piece of evidence, but we still don t know where mh370 went down. looks like a break, and what happened today, you could see