this is st. petersburg near tampa. you can see the red there. that was the low water when the water was blown out and then you will see the red line shoot way up and that s how the pattern will work and we ll be updating you and showing you all these tide gauges as we go through the storm surge. honestly because we don t know how good the pictures will be that we ll be able to show you. it s easy to put a reporter safely on the parking garage and show you the wind and the rain and it s harder to show you the storm surge because we don t want that s what kills people. kerry sanders is that s the first time he s watched it from the safe spot just so people can perhaps understand from the first time in their lives what that storm surge looks like going from minus five feet to another ten or 15. we ll get there shortly. that is the populated area now in the bull s-eye. the if you live in tampa you ll
unusable. there s a lot at stake. reporter: norfolk, virginia is the home of the world s largest naval station. their infrastructure is crucial to military readiness. home to about 75 ships, 200 aircraft, a large training and maintenance and logistics infrastructure to support those forces. sea level rise impacts the ability of the base to carry out its mission. the folks can t get to the base. the land is sinking and the other reason is the water s rising. the ocean s warming up and expanding. the gulfstream pushes water up against virginia more so than anywhere else on east coast. so we re getting the triple whammy. before we would see flooding during an actual tropical storm or hurricane. but now we just see flooding in certain areas during our lunar high tide. so we see the water coming up. we see it on the tide gauges but we also see it in the streets. so that s really a significant
well, the measurements have already been i mean the tide gauges along the coast have already picked up as shasta was saying 6-foot waves. i don t see a lot of other reports, but undoubtedly there s very high waves all along the south american coast there. and i was going to ask, frank, where else might this make landfall? what would some of the affected areas that would be most of concern? well, conceivably you could have waves hit japan, all the way across the ocean. they would take about 20, 24 hours to get there. we will see landfall along the california coast for waves somewhere between 12 and 15 hours. 12 hours at the southern edge of california, and 15 or so up in washington state. frank, is there precedent in this part of the world for this type of event, an 8.2?
yeah. well, these particular kinds of zones are called subduction zones. subduction refers to a specific plate diving under the continent. in this case it s the pacific plate diving under chile and the rest of south america. so those plates stick together. because the rocks rub against each other and so forth. and the pressure builds for years and years. and finally the rock breaks. the earth s crust springs back. and the vertical motion generates the wave at the surface of the ocean. how long does it typically take before we can discern whether the tsunami could meet some of the expectations? well, the measurements have already been i mean the tide gauges along the coast have already picked up as shasta was saying 6-foot waves. i don t see a lot of other
association. meteorologist was mention data from buoys and tide gauges and buoys give the noah of how how big it s going to be in places a , b , c and c . so it may be related to those forecasts. gregg: brian, when will the people of hawaii know that they are past the danger point? tsunamis go on for a long time. it s a misconception among many people that it s a single wave. often the second or third or fourth wave will be bigger than the first. they go on for hours. it would be well for people to stay on high ground until the