according to "the wall street journa journal", the investigation into flight 370 is classified as a criminal investigation. stay with cnn for more. i want to thank all of my experts tonight. thank you so much for joining us. "ac 360" starts right now. good evening. it's 11:00 p.m. on the east coast, and breaking news tonight, an 8. 2 magnitude earthquake has struck chile. the national emergency office asked everyone to evacuate the coast and a tsunami warning is in effect for chile and peru. the interior minister says the tsunami alert will stay in place for at least the next six hours. some 300 inmates escaped from a women's prison. police say 16 have been captured so far. just a short time ago, there

were tsunami watches and warnings in effect for ten other countries. the good news is those have been canceled. officials say the earthquake caused a small landslide and at least nine significant after shocks, including one with a magnitude of 6. 2. but no deaths or injuries are being reported. there seems to be no major damage to buildings. shasta darlington joins me on the phone. what are you hearing, shasta? >> reporter: there have been a series of tsunamis that have washed up on the northern coast of chile with waves up to eight feet. the government ordered the evacuation of the entire coast of chile. but they've really been active on the northern coast. so we've seen thousands of people moving to higher ground. even those who aren't close to the coast are moving out in the open, camping out in fields, in sports centers where they don't have to worry about falling buildings and debris in the case

of the many after shocks. you mentioned this is wone of te bigger stories, the escaped inmates from this women's prison. authorities are having to deal with this earthquake and track down these inmates. so these are the latest bits of information we're getting. electricity has been knocked out, communication is not fully up and running. so we're working to get you more as we get further away from this earthquake. >> i know authorities talked about flying in more security personnel to deal with that prison escape. this is an area, shasta, that's used to large earthquakes. >> reporter: absolutely. the deadliest earthquake in history happened in chile in 1960. 5,000 people died back then. even more recently, just four years ago, 500 people were killed after an 8.8 magnitude quake. they died mostly from flooding. the government was so slow to respond or to issue tsunami

warnings. so this time around, that's why we're seeing this very proactive, some would say over cautious response. they're going to maintain the tsunami warnings for another six hours. they don't want people feeling secure and moving back to the coast just yet. they want to make sure the danger is past. >> i want to bring in our chad myers. walk us through the location and the tsunami warnings. >> about 60 miles away from that town. that is the area that would have seen the waves the quickest, right along the shore. there were waves that were generated up this way. the reason why the waves didn't get up here and why the watches are canceled is because waves typically go in a straight line, not typically around a corner.

if we get any type of advisory for hawaii, that wave could get there somewhere around 3:00 in the morning hawaiian standard time. but right now they're saying we're watching the buoys, all of these buoys, all in a line like this, waiting to see if any of them begin to what we stay pop. these are called dart buoys. when they do this up and down, that rhythmic motion, that means they've seep somethin something. so that means there could be this wave moving across the ocean. but if we knew there was a bigger wave, we would have a lot more concern at this point in time. there was significant shaking called strong to very strong. i will tell you this, because it was offshore by 60 miles, the shaking we felt in southern california over the weekend was about the same. anderson? >> interesting. just in terms of the frequency of this, how many great

earthquakes are there per year above 8.0? >> one per year. this should be our only one. we talked about the 6. 2 after shocks. there's a significant chance of at least a 7 or greater after shock. so if there's a 9 earthquake, there could be an 8 after shock. if there's a 6, there could be a 5. we go one full order down the line. so i think there's going to be much more shaking tonight. some of these buildings were already cracked. that's why they don't want to be in the way of these cracked buildings if another 7.0 continues to shake that structure. >> we're joined by david gallo and cnn's safety analysis david soucie. david gallo, just realistically, if what they've seen this far this afternoon, they've seen six-foot waves, they're keeping these warnings in effect out of

caution. but you think the worst of the danger is past? >> it seems like that. the scientists keep a close eye and they've pulled back on all the watches and warnings. and the system is working. >> we have just gotten word, two confirmed dead, three seriously injured. in terms of -- david soucie, you worked in the north ridge quake, you do a lot of analysis of safety. how big -- what kind of damage do you think -- 8.2, depending on how strong the structures are, can cause a lot of damage. >> it can and it did in the north ridge earthquake. but the big challenge is just the emotional part of it. she said they're camping out. that's what we experienced there. every time we would go to a house, and i was there during the after shocks. you never know when it's going to happen, how strong it's going to be. it's frightening.

i even slept in tents because i didn't know when it was going to hit. >> i remember during the aftermath of the earthquake in haiti, there were a lot of after shocks. it is a very scary thing to experience, especially when there's not a great flow of information. authorities here, that is critical in a case like this, david, for authorities to try to get the information out to people as quickly as possible and get people away from the coastline. i was in sri lanka from the tsunami and in japan. those hit relatively quickly, didn't they >> yeah, sure. these did too. they immediately saw waves to the north and south. they do move across the ocean incredibly past, 500 miles per hour. >> and after shocks, can those cause tsunamis? >> sure. typically not as big as the main shock. in the 2010 case, they had about

a dozen magnitude 6 after shocks within ten days. so they went on and on for days. >> we see these images of people evacuating from coastal areas. is it as simple as getting to higher ground? >> i think generally it is. it means listening to the local authorities. a lot of it depends on the shape of the sea floor in the area. but the individual locations, under how far they need to evacuate. >> we're getting new images that have just come in. obviously you see some fires. david, that's the kind of thing you maybe don't expect in the wake of an earthquake. but all sorts of things can happen, fires can break out. >> typically do. you have downed power lines, anything going into the home gets severed, disconnected. and also the structures. we spent a lot of time in north ridge inspecting every structure that was dwelling for people. because you get, especially on a lateral, you get these step

stone cracks that are separating. every time there's an after shock, you have the potential of that continuing to propagate. >> so you're in a building that can survive the initial quake and are weakened with these after shocks. >> absolutely. >> i appreciate your time. we'll be keeping an eye on this throughout the hour. you can follow me on twitter. we'll bring you any new developments. also tonight, breaking news in the search for malaysian airlines flight 370. the search area has shifted yet again. we'll have a live update from australia. and why officials say this could be going on for a long, long time. and the death toll rising now from the landslide in washington state. we'll take you inside the search zone. [male announcer] ortho crime files. gross misconduct... ...disturbing the pantry. a house, under siege. homeowner calls in the big guns. say helto home defense max.

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we're going to be keeping a close eye on chile where an 8.2 magnitude quake hit off the northern coast. reuters reporting two people dead, three injured. there is a tsunami warning in effect for chile and peru. here was the scene just a few hours ago in northern chile. you can hear the tsunami warning sirens going off. and more breaking news tonight as the search goes on in the indian ocean. teams looking for any sign of debris from malaysian airlines flight 370. the search will now be focused to the east where teams have been looking. they will now have a nuclear submarine from the uk.

the search so far has yielded nothing and today australian officials warned that there is no end in sight for searching for this airliner. we'll have more on what the lead investigator has said. but first atika schubert joins me live. do we know if they have abandoned the area they were searching in the last couple of days or has that been completely searched? >> reporter: it's been completely searched. that's why they've moved it over slightly to the east. they're looking for debris constantly on the move. so they're projecting where the plane might have gone down and trying to figure out where the debris might be. that's why they've moved a little further east. unfortunately, it's disappointing they haven't found any. >> it's largely guess work at this point, because they don't know the altitude and the speed at which the aircraft was moving. they have one or two data

points. the british contributing the submarine. is it your understanding that this is largely to try to find those pings coming off black boxes? it was my understanding submarines wouldn't have must have to do in the search until they find debris and started looking for the actual crash zone. yeah, all of these things like the towed pinger locater, the sonar scans that a submarine would have, they're not that useful until they can find debris and show the proximate area where the plane went down. if they don't find any debris, the next best step is to bring out the sonar equipment, see if they can map a general area. but that is going to fake a lot of time. it is possible to do. they found a number of shipwrecks in this area using exactly that method. but world war ii ship that they found in that area took 25 years to find. so they're really in it for the

long haul. >> appreciate the updates. transcripts of conversations between the plane and air traffic control have been released. but there's nothing in it that can answer the question what happened. and a senior malaysian official confirming the malaysian government has received an fbi report on the pilot and co-pilot and what was on their flight simulators. apparently no leads there. with lead after lead turning up nothing, the answers family members want are getting more out of reach. jim sciutto reports. >> reporter: they were scouring the indian ocean from the air and the sea. but all the clues so far have turned out to be false leads. ocean trash and dead jellyfish. today, the australian officer in charge for flight 370 made clear the end is nowhere in sight. >> this could drag on for a long

time. it's not something necessarily going to be resolved in the next two weeks. >> reporter: equally stalled is the investigation into why flight 370 vanished. today, authorities released the full transcript of radio chatter between air traffic control and the cockpit. back and forth perfectly routine. air traffic control, 370, cleared for takeoff. good night. the cockpit responded, 32 right, cleared for takeoff. malaysian 370, thank you. bye. this has led malaysian authorities and experts to declare the transcript neither abnormal or suspicious. >> the transcript had no clues of criminal activity. as transcripts go, and i've read a lot of them, this one was pretty clean. >> reporter: still, officials' belated correction to the pilot's last tranmission have

critics again pointing to continuing confusion and contradiction in the investigation. now malaysian authorities are set to ask for more help. malaysia's defense chief arriving in hawaii where he will meet chuck hagel and possibly ask for more u.s. military assets designed for deep water search and recovery. authorities have promised the family members of loved ones a private, behind closed doors briefing with experts. experts there to answer questions, including how they have determined what the new search zones are. they won't be able to answer the questions they want to know most, which is where is that plane, where might the remains be of their loved ones and what brought that plane down? i was thinking the name of that british submarine is "tireless." i think it's a fitting name.

>> again, the headline right now is this search area has shifted yet again. jim sciutto, thanks. join me now, david soucie, author of "why planes crash." david gallo is with us. cnn aviation analyst and private pilot miles o'brien and richard quest. david gallo, you look at that new search area and you can call it a shift. but that's a new area. >> it's a whole new area, anderson. it's surprising in a way, but it looks like they're working their way up that arc. there was that southern arc and they must be adjusting it. i heard about five different things in that last report that are all brand new. so this is interesting. >> what's brand new? >> the british submarine being brought in, the shift, why the shift now? are we just giving up completely on the other location or is there new evidence that says

we're in the wrong place. >> it seems like they have exhausted -- they've been searching since it was friday, they moved that search area. maybe they have exhausted the area of searching and they have to move. >> well, except if they are following the arc, then i think they're adjusting. if they're looking at currents and waves, maybe models are predicting they were in the wrong area. but this is not a slight shift. we're over totally different kinds of sea floor. i just feel bad. it's got to be tough on the crews out there. >> exhausting. david soucie, you know, a skeptic would say look, nobody has any idea. they're estimating the altitude, they're estimating the speed of the aircraft. there's a huge range in those estimates. >> yeah. this altitude is another bit of information. no one has said we don't know the altitude.

up to now, we know it was flying at 35,000 feet. i speculated earlier it was at 12,000 feet. everybody said no, it couldn't have been that. they just plain don't know. they're trying to do everything they can with what they have, but they don't have much. >> richard? >> they have two pieces of information. the radar data after the 1:19 transponder switchoff. the military data in the straits of malacca and they have the satellite hand shakes. the prime minister of malaysia and australia, the transport minister, the wing commander, everybody has said, this is the best they've got. that's why i'm not really surprised to see them, frankly, making it up as they go along. because they've only got those two pieces -- >> that's what they're doing, they're making it up. they're estimating, saying if the teed was such and such and

the altitude was such and such, let's look here. >> they are using that very small two pieces of information, rety refining, recalibrating, but that is it. but if there is other data, they ain't told us. >> miles o'brien, what do you make of this shift? >> we know from these hand shakes, we can speculate pretty well as to when the flight ended. it was either the last full hand shake or this half hand shake. that means the plane was in the air for about seven hours. but that's all we know. imagine if we have this last radar return, and it gives you a rough altitude in speed. there's still seven hours that has transpired afterwards that we don't know what happened, whether the speed changed, whether the altitude changed. and we're not certain it was flown to fuel starvation.

that's way too many variables to come up with a concerted search area. frankly, i'm growing pessimistic they'll ever find any wreckage. >> why, because of the length of time? >> it's the length of time but the sheer size of the ocean and the fact that, yes, we know it's on this giant circle somewhere on the planet. we presume the information to be relatively accurate. but with that other information, what was the range of the aircraft? that still is a giant, giant area. you know, we're talking about ten aircraft that are looking. ten aircraft that are look in this giant ocean with no specific location. >> david? >> just because you have range and a distance, you don't know whether that aircraft -- you don't have any idea what was

going on. if the autopilot was disengajed, it would have been a lot less stable. >> in terms of the investigation, this coming out, our david fuentes, former assistant fbi director, saying the fib has given over to the malaysians the information that they have. nothing apparently -- let me make sure i get this right. on the flight simulator and the pilot's laptop, nothing suspicious. an official also confirming nothing negative was found. so all those questions about, is there something on the laptop, is there something on the simulator? from our reporting, it seems not, richard. >> and in that information, the pendulum swings back the other way. when there were all these leaks about flight plans erased and data -- >> a reporter from "usa today" was saying her reliable

malaysian government source was saying that the pilot was the one under suspicion. >> and the pendulum swung right over to the pilot must have done it. then we discovered it was not erased, it was just written over. this is, without doubt, i don't know how many people have to say this, but this is without doubt unprecedented. not any one of us who has looked at this for many years has ever seen anything like it. and if they have, please do speak up now. >> and miles o'brien, the pendulum has swung away from the pilots and co-pilot. >> in some quarters. i'm not big on the pendulum idea. i would like to have the fulm f menu laid out. each matter leads nus a certain directional. it's very difficult to exclude almost anything still. >> they also said that the

malaysian source that they checked the websites, they scoured the websites the two men had visited and also found nothing in any of that data that would raise suspicion. david gallo, how significant is this submarine? unless you have a debris field, is a sub any good? >> in the france 447, the french had a military submarine on scene. i assume that's part of the role here, because military subs don't go near as deep as the sea floor is here. it's too deep. they don't normally carry the sides of side scan that can scour the bottom. maybe it has it but it would be classified. but it remeans to be seen what the mission of the sub is. >> they would not be involved -- one of the things that kim was

saying about the sub, they sometimes look for ships on the surface during their regular duties but they wouldn't be looking for debris? >> i think they could, but i would be surprised. maybe that's true, too. >> again, looking for the pinger, the clock is ticking on that. if it's even working at full strength, which we don't know based on what you heard from an auditor on how malaysian airlines had stored devices in the past. so a lot of questions remain whether this is out there pinging. we're going to have more from our panel. follow us on twitter. tweet us with your questions. coming up, if any wreckage from the flight is found at the bottom of the ocean, we could be talking about deep water, far deeper than a human can go. we'll look at the technology behind how wreckage is salvaged from those kind of depths.

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the search has resumed in the indian ocean for flight 370 and the search area has moved east. we heard from australian officials about what an inexact science the search is. so far no wreckage, but what if they do find something and it's at the bottom of the ocean? randi kaye takes a look at that. >> reporter: this is what it looks like trying to recover an airplane in the ocean. you're watching a u.s. navy salvage team gather pieces of twa flight 800, which went down off new york in 1996.

>> the u.s. navy has recovered an in tact helicopter from 12,000 feet. >> reporter: retired captain chip mccord has been involved in many salvage recovery operations. but those were in water much shallower than the indian ocean. the navy has underwater vehicles designed for deep water salvage operations. they can go as deep as 20,000 feet, but the deeper the recovery, the slower the process. >> it takes about an hour for every 1,000 feet that you need to descend. so if you're going to 11,000 feet, you can count on 11 hours to get down. >> reporter: at those depths,

it's pitch black. so the underwater vehicles are equipped with lights and cameras. they're also outfitted with sonar to scout for debris. they are steered by two operators on board the ship above, who use instant feedback from the salvage vehicle's cameras to direct the robotic arms. >> they can hover, they can move left, right, forward and aft, and go to where they need very carefully, hover over a piece and pick it up if they need to. >> reporter: remember air france right 447 which crashed in the atlantic ocean in 2009? two years later, an unmanned vehicle found the debris field for that flight, 13,000 feet beneath the surface. the engines were pulled from the ocean floor. if flight 370 is found, search teams are prepared to do the

same. >> if it's small, the rov can pick it up and put it in the basket. >> reporter: but they can only carry about 4,000 pounds, so anything heavier, like the fuselage, will have to be attached to a cable and pulled to the surface by a crane on the ship. keep in mind, this could be happening miles below the surface, an incredibly difficult task. still, no doubt salvage teams will keep their eyes peeled for the black box, hoping to get much-needed answers first. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> fascinating technology. joining me once again is david gallo, and also a technical adviser in the investigation of air france flight 447. it's one thing to look at the technology, but i'm also fascinated, this is essentially a human operation. it's human effort being exerted out on the sea. what is it like to be out there, what is it like to try to

constantly be searching, to constantly not have enough information? it's got to be so difficult. >> finding the information is crucial. when we were out there the first time, it took us a long time to just figure out what was happening, because it was -- it was a total mystery. >> was it the debris that started to give you the first -- i know you had gotten some data from the plane before it went down, but was it finding those pieces of debris five days into it? >> we had the data, we had the position of the location of the aircraft, we knew that the airplane had a problem, because the maintenance messages were sent out. so we were in a better position than the people searching for this flight. >> there's just not enough data points right now. >> it's all about data, understanding the right data. in the beginning of the air flans flight, we had too much information and not the right information.

it's just a matter of understanding which information you need. >> david, as we talked about, until you find a debris field, until you know where the plane entered the water, all this underwater equipment is not to be utilized. >> it's not like there's a lot of teams that can do this kind of work. so the human power behind the effort is very limited. so you don't want to burn out -- and it's also difficult to move out. you have to have the right ship, you have to mobilize on that ship. you have an air ship or freight. ships go about 10 or 12 miles an hour across the surface of the ocean. >> when you're -- how much of the air france flight wreckage did you end up bringing up? once you get the black boxes, is that enough? do you not need to bring up more of the wreckage? >> you needed the black boxes and just for safety, we would get the engines afterwards in case something needed to be done

after the investigation. but the main thing was the black boxes. >> we want to use these remotely operated vehicles with incredibly high precision navigation to do very accurate, high definition still photography, videographer and make a virtual site so you can bring that back to the investigators. in this case, it would be the accident investigation team. so before you actually pull things up, we have the ability to do that work. >> i don't want to get too -- i don't know if gruesome is the right word, but there are families waiting to hear what happened to their loved ones and would like to have them return home, whatever that means. and for air france, were you able -- is recovering people from the depths, is that part of it? or are they -- are they left there? >> well, you want to answer that? >> it's a difficult thing.

we get emotional, you try to be unemotional about it, but you can't help, you're just below the layer of the scientific aspect, there's a deep emotion allayer. i can just say whatever you want to recover from the depth, you can do it if you have the will, yeah, sure. >> the -- again, you had so many data points on air france. then then it took two, almost two years -- >> 600 days. >> i'm sure you were counting each of those days. do you see -- miles o'brien was saying he's pessimistic that maybe anything will be found. are you? >> something that's been bothering me, one, it's -- i hear a lot of comparisons to air france, almost like it's a competition, like which one is tougher. it's not to be meant a competition like that. it took two calendar years, but a lot of that was spent haggling trying to get back out there,

getting permission to get back out there. all told, we spent -- >> four months at sea. but it took a long time to analyze the data, the good information, the not so good information. >> you don't want to burn out crews and stuff. you want to get your ducks in a row. >> exactly. >> but this case it's just where do you begin, without that last known position, without a shred of evidence that the plane is in the water at all. >> things like bureaucracy, getting permission, all of that impacts an investigation. >> sure. >> in retrospect, looking back, this has only multiplied the number of foreign nationals involved. >> we were talking about how unfortunate it is we find ourselves back in this situation after air france. there needs to be a better system to deal with these things where people cooperate. and here we have the same kinds of issues about who's bringing

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>> >> tonight, there's more news about another boeing 777, it crashed while trying to land at san francisco general airport last july. three people died, more than 180 injured. it was the first commercial airline crash in the united states in more than four years. the investigation still ongoing and newly filed documents, pilot error is being admitted. >> oh, my god. it's an accident. >> reporter: from the very beginning, it seemed clear that flight 214 from seoul, korea, was flying too low and too slow on approach to san francisco.

>> there was no rain, no fog at the san francisco airport. i've seen it in much tougher conditions to land. so yeah, it was so shocking we could miss the runway by so much. >> reporter: the plane clipped a sea wall and someone, breaking into pieces. there was chaos on the ground. passengers ran from the plane as emergency crews arrived. they doused the plane with foam. these pictures show you the aftermath inside the cabin. rows of seats were also dislodged. three passengers died, one run over by a fire truck involved in the rescue. scores of others injured. now nearly nine months later, the airline admits in a regulatory filing that pilots failed to maintain a safe approach. given the pilot's experience and training, there are no obvious explanations for why they did not recognize the deteriorating air speed and abandon the approach sooner.

yet the airliner says boeing and its 777, the same model of plane missing, is also partly to plane. it says the plane's navigation instruments, airplane software, led the crew to believe the jet was maintaining enough speed to land safely. in its own documents, boeing says not so. placing the blame squarely on the pilots. the equipment it says had been functioning normally. >> there's almost 1200 or so 777s flying around. that hasn't been a problem with any of the other carriers that i'm aware of. >> reporter: according to mark weiss, the airline has a weak argument, maintaining that safe air speed is -- >> the bottom line it's the pilot's job to maintain safe air speed at all times. that may go back to a fundamental problem of skill sets or training. >> reporter: the federal aviation administration urged

boeing in 2010 to update its software. but the airline says boeing hasn't done so. the back and forth will likely lead to a legal battle over financial damages. a process that could take years. what happened with the sfo clash and the malaysian airliner could not be anymore different. in san francisco, the cause is clear. with 370, of course, there's still no answer. dan simon, cnn, san francisco. >> up next, more breaking news. the death toll in the washington landslide is climbing. the latest numbers ahead. plus, a look inside the search zone, 640 acres of mud and debris. jeremiah. they don't know it yet, but they're gonna fall in love, get married, have a couple of kids, [ children laughing ] move to the country, and live a long, happy life together where they almost never fight about money. [ dog barks ] because right after they get married, they'll find some financial folks who will talk to them about preparing early for retirement

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>> reporter: this is ground zero of the washington landslide. our first look at the destruction up close. >> all of this debris was once over the roadway. this all used to be homes. debris piled up to 80 feet high in some spots. tires, twisted cables, large appliances and uprooted trees. the only decipherable objects in the mangled mess. the images don't fully capture the devastation. this neighborhood was mutilated by the enormous force and power of land and water that ripped through this valley. >> we do have family members out here today with us. our family's just gotten bigger. we've kind of adopted the town of oso, maybe they've adopted us. >> reporter: a week and a half after the disaster the driving force remains finding victims. nearly two dozen people are still missing. >> would you be able to find all the victims? >> we're going to try. >> reporter: it's slow methodical work with big risks. the debris field is full of a

toxic sludge, a combination of human waste, chemicals from households as well as propane tanks, oil and gas making the search effort extremely dangerous. every person, animal and thing that comes out of here has to be decontaminated. workers are forced to wait for some areas to dry out before investigating. pumps have helped to clear some of the water where search dogs have picked up human scent. sunshine today gave search teams the upper hand in what's inevitably a recovery mission. all of this heavy equipment is helping to clear the debris off the road to provide more access for rescuers. but the debris is staying put until hand crews can come and go through these piles to pull belongings for family members who lost everything. two american flags fly among the men and women working here. one, recovered from the debris, hangs in reverence for hives lost. another flag at half-staff on a lone tree left standing in the

slide zone. a source of strength and a symbol of hope for better days ahead. ana cabrera, cnn, arlington, washington. up next, the breaking news out of chile where an 8.2 earthquake has hit off the coast. the latest ahead. this is the first power plant in the country to combine solar and natural gas at the same location. during the day, we generate as much electricity

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want to get you up to speed on the breaking news out of chile this evening. a magnitude 8.2 earthquake that struck off the country's coast has been followed by 12 after shocks. reuters reporting two people confirmed dead, three others with serious injuries. the tsunami warping has been canceled. martin, seems to be an area prone to strong quakes. i understand the region was having strong tremors for weeks before hand, is that correct? >> reporter: absolutely. there will been various trimmers, including in santiago. in fact, geologists have been predicting all of these tremors have been a build-up to something major. whether this is it or something bigger than be expected in the

near future, we don't know yet. but it seems to have been building up to something. also, i am -- i might also point out we've had earthquakes in california, which of course is on the same line. so it may be a generalized problem here. >> are people allowed to go back now to their homes in those coastal areas? >> reporter: if the tsunami warning has been called off, i would imagine they would be on their way back. although perhaps in some regions, it's not advisable, since electricity has been cut off. i think the damage is worse than what was originally reported. up to 80% of the city is blacked out. and it may take a while to restore electricity to those

cities. >> martin, appreciate the update. "smerconish" is next. this is cnn breaking news. good evening, i'm michael smercanish. we're going to get the latest on flight 370 in just a moment. breaking news tonight, tsunami waves 6.5 feet hive off the coast of chile' following an 8.2 magnitude earthquake. chile''s national emergency office tweeted tonight it's asking for everyone to evacuate the south american nation's coast. shasta darlington has the very latest. shasta, what are you hearing from the local media? with, that's right, michael. we're actually already seeing some evacuations under way. what we've seen so far that they're very calm, they've been ordered to get to higher ground. but they're doing it in a very orderly fashion. we've actually also talked to