This is CNN breaking news.

Good evening. I'm Laura Coat with the breaking news tonight. There is a massive earthquake that has triggered multiple tsunami alerts all across the Pacific region, including Alaska, including Hawaii, and the entire United States West Coast.

The 8.8 magnitude quake, it hit off Russia's East Coast

just before 7.30 p.m. Eastern Time. Now this is some of the first video that we are seeing of the

aftermath. It's from Russia's far east, and it shows waves moving into a group of buildings and at least one structure being

moved by the water. This is the strongest earthquake on the planet since 2011 when a 9.0

quake struck Japan and triggered a devastating tsunami. Japan is currently under a tsunami warning and one

official there is warning about waves as high as about 10 feet. I don't go ahead.

The United Meteorologist Alison Chinchar. Allison, what is the likelihood that that

tsunami waves will hit the United States coastlines? And if so,

when could they do that? Yeah, so let's answer the first part of your question, which is,

will it? You know, what is the likelihood? And the likelihood is very high that the U.S.

will see some type of tsunami wave. The one thing we just don't know at this point is how strong

those tsunami waves.

How high are they going to be? What kind of damage would they end up causing in some of those areas?

Now, here is the look at where the earthquake took place. This is the 8.8. It was 13 miles deep. That may

seem like very deep, but it's not. It's actually very shallow in terms of geological things. So when we take a look at this, the tsunami waves are going to continue to propagate outward.

Okay?

So they're going to continue to stretch out.

The unfortunate part is when they propagate out in this direction, that really kind of puts

Hawaii in particular kind of right there in the main line of the target.

Now we've talked about Japan, for example,

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