About 25 mile offshore Long Branch, waves reached heights of 44 feet.
You'd be dead before the sound waves reached you.
Waves reached 4 metres around the coast of Japan.
At their highest, the waves reached almost 30 metres.
The waves reached Hawaii 15 hours later, drowning more than 60 people.
Significant wave heights – a measure averaging the bigger waves – reached a record 38ft.
The largest earthquake ever recorded occurred there in 1960, triggering a tsunami whose waves reached Japan 17,000 miles away.
Then, on September 14 , 2015 at just before eleven in the morning, Central European Time, the waves reached Earth.
The shock waves reached a nearby maternity hospital, where Najeeba Saad, a patient, said pregnant women panicked.
However, even that is small when compared to the 2011 quake in Japan in which waves reached 14-metres in height above sea level.
A separate team led by Katrin Monecke from the University of Pittsburgh looked at sedimentary records on coastal marshes in Aceh, where the waves reached 115 feet.
