Tsunami Hits US

An 8.8 magnitude earthquake has hit Russia, generating tsunamis that are traveling around three hundred to five hundred miles per hour, with waves up to 4 feet in Hawaii. Earthquakes typically don’t make tsunamis, but if the earthquake is underwater and the two tectonic plates are sliding over each other, it will push the water upward to make a wave. At the deep sea, you will not feel the tsunami. In the deep sea, there is enough space for the waves to travel, but when the water gets shallow, the waves have nowhere to push except up. This will also suck up the water from the beaches and into the wave. The magnitude 8.8 earthquake traveled from Russia, then to Alaska in about one and a half hours. It took eight hours to get to Hawaii, with waves in Hawaii reaching up to three feet. After the waves hit Hawaii, they went to California. The waves were under three feet. People were asked not to go on the beach. Japan also got hit by the tsunami and Japan, and after being flooded in 2011 and the nuclear power plant meltdown, they had the state–of-the-art technology in detecting earthquakes and tsunamis. They have evacuated over two thousand people in Japan. Two million people in total were evacuated, the National Weather Service has sent out warnings for tsunami watch and warnings many people in Hawaii were caught in traffic after the National Weather Service sent out a tsunami warning for people on the islands of Hawaii, the traffic was bumper to bumper traffic for dozens of miles people were just stuck in traffic. The National Weather Service had advised people to listen to the NOAA weather radio to get live news updates on the inbound tsunami. California has tsunami advisories for most of the coastline, but in one spot near the top of California, that part of California has been warned and evacuated to other parts of California. These parts of land are more inland. Alaska has also been hit with tsunamis over five feet.