at 9:28 p.m (hst) the national weather service issued a tsunami warning until 7 a.m. for all of hawaii. tsunami waves were expected to arrive in hawaii at 2:59 am local time. a wave two meters high reached california, after travelling across the pacific ocean at a speed of 500 kilometres per hour. a man in california was drowned after being swept into the ocean while trying to take a photograph of the tsunami wave.