Hawaii is no stranger to natural disasters, from lava and hurricanes to tsunami. <\/p>\n
Click here to watch Paul Drewes's report. <\/p>\n
Destructive waves have hit before, but now emergency personnel want to makesure people are prepared for a massive tsunami.<\/p>\n
It is not a doomsday scenario, it is actually something that has happened before. <\/p>\n
Now plans are in the works for a worst case scenario: the possibility of a huge tsunami hitting Hawaii head on. <\/p>\n
Hawaii has been hit by destructive waves, but one of the biggest was 500 years ago, when a massive tsunami (similar to the Japanese tsunami of 2011) slammed into our shores. <\/p>\n
\"A large magnitude 9.2, 9.3 event right in the eastern Aleutian Islands. If you look at a map that area in the Pacific Ocean points directly at us,\" said Rhett Butler with the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology. <\/p>\n
Tsunami generated by earthquakes in Alaska and Kamchatka Peninsula have caused damage in Hawaii, but those waves weren't directly aimed at our islands. <\/p>\n
If an extreme tsunami came from the Aleutians north-facing beaches would see the biggest waves, but other shores would not be spared. <\/p>\n
\"The wavelength of tsunami is huge. We're looking at a fault 600-700 kilometers that breaks. That is on the order of the whole Hawaiian islands, so the wave will wrap around the whole islands,\" added Butler. <\/p>\n
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