Japan Tsunami Debris Expected on U.S. Shores in 3 Years
World News • 4/13/11 2:32:41 pm • Views: 472
…Roughly a year from now, the first wave of debris is expected to hit Hawaii’s Midway Islands. In two years, the debris cloud will likely hit Hawaii’s main islands, and in three years, it’s projected to arrive on the U.S. West Coast, said Jan Hafner, a scientific programmer who helped develop the model at the university’s International Pacific Research Center in Honolulu.
Wreckage from Japan could hit shorelines from Baja, Calif., as far north as Alaska.
However, Hafner told OurAmazingPlanet, the debris is then expected to head back out to sea and wallop Hawaii again, in a second, more powerful wave.
