India, Aug. 18 -- Hurricane Erin is currently a massive Category 4 storm swirling in the Atlantic after bursting in intensity at a record-breaking rate this past weekend.

The main concern is storm's devastating effect with the potential to send dangerous rip currents and enormous waves toward the eastern US coastline and Bermuda.

Although the storm is expected to remain well offshore, as it gets set to move north, its vast wind field is already causing massive seas to travel hundreds of miles outward, bringing hazardous rip currents to US coasts, according to CNN.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) reports that Erin's outer rainfall bands began affecting the southeast Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands early Monday and have torm...