Good Morning Britain halted for ‘breaking news’ in devastating tsunami update

Good Morning Britain was halted for breaking news as an 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia has left all pacific coastlines, but particularly Hawaii, in danger of a deadly tsunami. Although San Francisco is in the direct line of the quake the show's meteorologist Laura Tobin explained why Hawaii was the likely target for the disaster.

Speaking to hosts Ed Balls and Kate Garraway on the ITV show she explained: "It's the size that the earthquake was and the way that the energy is dissipated outward. We have also loads of different types of earthquakes on Earth, but this is the worst kind. It's called a thrust earthquake, where you get two tectonic plates, one moving on together, and that's why so much energy is released, and it's because of the way that that moves, and that's what drives the waste across the ocean. This is kind of largely going south, she said.

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