glass here, you know, thankfully the tsunami did strike but it wasn t the hawaiians were very prepared, though. they received notification of the earthquake striking at 8:45. they put out a warning at 12:30 from their tsunami warning center which is just a few miles from where i m standing right now and i m with ed teixeira the vice director of civil defense. how important was it to conduct the evacuations that you did? it was pretty important. with an earthquake measuring 8.8 magnitude even our tsunami warning officials were very, very concernd that a quake like that in chile next to the water coupled with tide gage readings along the coast and other readings would result in a very damaging earthquake to hawaii. and other parts of the pacific for that matter. we know how poorful they are predicting the how powerful