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Telling us is the loss of life is significantly decreased, because you re being given a warning to go to higher ground. because they have time to prepare. the wave will lose steam as it travels further. but not enough to make it a non-event. one of the areas where a tsunami warning has been issued is hawaii. as far as the warning of when it could possibly hit, which we have not gotten confirmation that this will be an event or non-event specifically to hawaii, and our viewers that are watching there, the possibility of any tsunami damage, according to this note from a geophysicist from the pacific tsunami warning center, is that could be around 5:00 a.m. eastern time. that is a significant amount of time, a significant amount of warning. and we encourage people obviously to tune in to their ....
But further inland is the city of sendai, which is one of the largest cities in northern japan. as i was explaining to you before, the aerial shot and weather cam shots panning over the city, so far we have not seen any sort of major firebreaking out. there have been reports of sporadic fires in residential areas. but so far, no buildings, skyscrapers toppled down or anything like that. we spoke to this geophysicist who did say there are concerns, significant concerns of aftershocks. obviously you being there in the heart of it, in tokyo, where they felt significant effects of the magnitude 8.9 quake about two and a half hours north of you, where are you right now? how are people around you preparing for that? well, the aftershock you know, funny you mention the aftershock, because we actually had an earthquake at the same ....
Up to speed, if they re just tuning in. we got some perspective from this geophysicist of how huge this was. the worst earthquake ever to strike japan. and for people that are just tuning in, give us once again an idea of what it was like for you. you were right in the middle of it. you had about 30 seconds from when you got a warning on local television that this was coming to you. i mean, this was this struck about two and a half hours north. and this was headed your way. so you can give us the perspective of how this went down. right. well, as you said, there was a warning we were watching the parliamentary session on tv here. and there was a warning that popped up saying that a large earth quake was expected to hit any moment now. and about 30 seconds later, the lights in our office were in the skyscraper on the 27th floor of the skyscraper, it started to shake. it was first small, gradual, minimal, and then it started to shake quite a bit, knocking some ....
And sweeping away literally entire towns. there in the miyagi prefecture. if you are just tuning in, that is about two and a half hours north of tokyo. northeast coast of japan. while it s not one of the most populated areas, as one of our tokyo producers has told us, it is significantly populated. the tsunami hitting japan right now, as we are told by a geophysicist, will likely be the worst of it, the worst damage that we re going to see. but the further the tsunami has to go, the less loss of life typically takes place, because people have time to move. now, that s the warning, if you re sitting at home and watching in an area where a tsunami warning has been issued, the advice that you should be heeding. if you are hearing from your local broadcaster, that you need to seek higher ground, what this note from a geophysicist is ....
To evacuate. they were able to get out of the buildings. we are still waiting for reports on rescue efforts. any possible injuries or fatalities as a result of it. but as you begin to take a look at this video, and you really take a moment, and get an idea of just how huge this tsunami wave was, a town of basically a community, homes, businesses, farms, is now underwater. you can get an idea of that. we don t have before-and-after pictures, but that is just about as well as we can tell the story is through those pictures right there. throughout the morning, we ll continue to bring you these pictures, because every minute this continues to change. we re getting information from a geophysicist at the pacific ....