How the Japan Tsunami’s Massive Debris Plume Will Hit California and Hawaii

If you live in Hawaii , California , British Columbia , Alaska or Baja California , here are some bad tidings : According to estimator models made by scientists at the International Pacific Research Center , University of Hawaii at Manoa , all the debris wash out by the Japan tsunami is coming your way .

This is how the applesauce will circularize through the Pacific and hit the West Coast of the United States , Canada and Mexico .

The model in the video recording above - rise by Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner using data from drifting buoy that have been deployed over years through the Pacific Ocean - shows the unstoppable onward motion of the rubble after the March 11 tsunami . The trash plume - formed by all form of junk , from pieces of star sign and automobiles to consumer electronics - is now pass around eastward from Japan taken by the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre .