Bill Karens, you're exactly the person I want to talk to. First of all, this is an earthquake that struck off the coast of Russia, yet the tsunami warnings were threatening the west coast of the US. How is that possible.Well, it was scary because people didn't know what was coming. And when the geologists and the tsunami experts are the ones that are saying we just don't know yet, that's when it really got everyone's attention. And that's when even the government officials and like the governor of Hawaii, t ...

[Music] A massive earthquake off the coast of Russia triggers a huge tsunami in the Pacific Ocean. Enormous waves impacting Russia's Curial Islands, parts of Japan, even prompting evacuations as far away as Chile and Peru. Tsunami alerts across the Pacific, Hawaii, the California coast, even New Zealand.But how can an earthquake, even a huge one, in one corner of the world's largest ocean, impact places 7,000 miles away. It's a bit like throwing a very, very large rock into the sea and then watching the wav ...