welcome back. this is world one, live from london. coming up on 6:00 a.m. in new york, noon in berlin, 7:00 p.m. in tokyo. we want to tell you about a piece of equipment that s helping to inspect the fukushima daiichi nuclear plan the. it s a robot that s gone into one of the reactor buildings. it s 41 degrees and it s so humid, the robot s lenses fogged up. the machine was able to report relatively low radiation levels. japan is pretty used to earthquakes of the kind that damaged the nuclear plant. paula hancocks shows us the country is getting ready for a quake that could be even more serious than the one that just struck. reporter: once the ground starts shaking, you should get on the floor. if you can, crawl under a table or a december tock protect yourself from falling debris. all you can do then is wait until the shaking stops.
government s prediction of where the likely areas for future earthquakes are. the yellow parts of this map are considered low risk by the japanese government but that is where many earthquakes have happened. where the earthquakes happened and where the government said they would happen are completely different. so it s obvious their methodology is simply flawed and their numbers should be ignored. reporter: the professor considers the best policy to be expect the unexpected and prepare for the worst no matter where you are in japan. paula hancocks, cnn, tokyo. a recap of our top stories now. a libyan opposition spokesman says people in the besieged city of misrata feel let down and disappointed by nato. he says no nato planes have attacked moammar gadhafi s forces in days and conditions in the city are getting worse. according to the rebel government, more than 10,000 people have been killed in libya since fighting began back in february.
this disaster prevention center in tokyo is preparing residents for the worst. the worst in this city, is assumed by many to be a massive earthquake. this investment banker tells me, tokyo is so condensed, there should be more preparation than there has been so far. a government study predicts that there is a 70% chance of a magnitude 7 earthquake or greater in the tokyo area within the next 30 years. a government study finds that a 7.3 imagimagnitude earthquake i tokyo could result in the deaths of more than 6,000 people. the massive 9.0 magnitude on march 11th rocked the capital and surrounding areas even though the epicenter was 370 kilometers or 230 miles away. transport ground to a standstill, crippling a mega city of almost 0 million people.
and fires blazed in different areas around the city. some residents saw it as a warning of what could happen if the next earthquake s epicenter is tokyo itself. this professor says 85,000 buildings would be destroyed in tokyo and immediate areas, also due to fire. that could mean up to 1.7 million households lose their home. far more than in recent earthquake in northeast japan. the last big earthquake to hit the city in 1923 was devastating. more than 140,000 people were killed, according to the u.s. geological survey. the usgs says it measured 7.9 on the richter scale, happening just before midday as everyone was cooking on charcoal or wood burning stoves. fires swept through the city. in some areas all that remained were charred shells of buildings. however, building and fire regulations have improved significantly since that time. not everyone agrees with the