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[Slide : Text] [Slide : Paula Akana, KITV4 news.]
We want to update you on our top story tonight. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued
a tsunami advisory for the State of Hawaii after a massive earthquake rocked central
Chile. [Slide : Graphic/text]
A magnitude 8.8 quake struck about 75 miles from Concepcion, Chile just after 8:30 this
evening, Hawaii time. That strong quake put surrounding areas under a tsunami warning,
destructive waves of nine feet have been reported along the South American coastline.
[Slide : Paula Akana] For the latest on what we can expect here
in Hawaii from this powerful quake, we're going to turn things over…
[Slide : Text] …to KITV for meteorologist, Justin Fujioka.
[Slide : Split screen, Paula Akana, Justin] Justin.
[Slide : Justin Fujioka, weather screen] Paula, first of all we want to begin with
the fact that we are under a tsunami advisory. That's basically a waiting period here. We're
trying to collect data. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, the site, they're working
hard to determine whether or not this earthquake has generated a Pacific wide tsunami.
Again, it was upgraded about a half hour ago to an 8.8. It happened just after 8:30 this
evening. It's actually only 140 miles from the centre of the 1960 earthquake, the strongest
earthquake in recorded history here. That earthquake was a [1:07] 9.5 and did create
a destructive tsunami here in the islands of Hawaii.
If there's any positive in this situation right now, this is very far from Hawaii. These
waves travel at 450 miles per hour. But we are very far from the South American coastline
so it will take about 14 and a half to 15 hours for this energy to reach our islands
while we're waiting for some deep ocean sensors that are located just off the coast of South
America. We're going to get that information right around 11:20 this evening and we'll
know much more, whether a Pacific wide tsunami was generated by again, this earthquake, a
magnitude 8.8 about 8:30 this evening, Hawaii standard time.
We'll continue to update this developing situation throughout the newscast. Paula.
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