Japanese tsunami debris will reach US

We have all heard about the devastating tsunami that hit Japan in March. Lives were lost and some survivors were left without a home. Researchers at the University of Hawaii have been studying the effects of this tsunami and have stated that the debris is going to be washed up on American shores. Jon Hafner, from the International Pacific Research Center said that the first wave of debris should hit Hawaii’s Midway island in about a year. He also said that the remnants of the earthquake that hit Japan could hit our west coast. He thinks that the debris could hit the entire western shore, from Alaska down to Baja, California. Hafner states that it is hard to tell what the debris will carry or if it is toxic or not."The main cloud of the debris would turn to the southwest and end up in the Pacific Garbage Patch, and within five years it will be coming out of the garbage patch once in a while and hit Hawaii over and over and over," says Hafner. He seems to think that the waves will be very large and hard for the microorganisms to break down. "But we do not know for sure if that is the case," says Hafner.