Hawaii to be hit by Japan quake-tsunami debris

By Jijo Jacob | April 08 2011 5:54 AM

A giant island of earthquake-tsunami debris is floating in the sea and will hit the Hawaiian islands in the months to come, researchers have said, according to CNN.

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A survivor looks on at the debris from the second floor of his destroyed house in Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, days after the area was devastated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami, March 17, 2011

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The vast chunk of debris floating around in the sea includes houses, buildings, automobiles, trees and industrial material.

The debris will hit the Hawaiian islands in about a year's time, researchers at the International Pacific Research Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa said, showing computer simulations.

The debris island will make a second appearance on the island shores five years later, before it eventually lands up in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

The Patch, also known as the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a large area in the Pacific Ocean where the sea-borne trash ends up.