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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110312:13:53:00

coast of japan spawned a tsunami with that incredible power. japan s coast, actually, reynolds, moved some 8 feet and the earth itself on an altered axis? hard to believe. devastating effect. no question about it. thankfully to help me explain this, we ve got cnn international with us. you know this guy very, very well, he s a wonderful expert. and this is really a hot bed of seismic activity, isn t it? you ve seen all the tremors, aftershocks, and the big one being the 8.9 earthquake. exactly what is the anatomy of a system like this? anatomy of a tsunami? yeah, we re sitting in an area that gets on average some 1,500 quakes per year and the word tsunami, japanese term tsu for the word port, and wave. we have japan right along the coast there, this being the pacific plate lined in the bottom of your screen. the plates grinding against each

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110312:14:05:00

$165,000 in aid and says it will consider offering more when the extent of the damage is known. and the international red cross and red crescent say they ve mobilized 11 teams to heavily damaged areas. they have 20,000 tents, and other relief supplies ready to pass on to local red cross teams. and let s get more on the situation with that nuclear power plant now. cnn s stan grant in tokyo. you ve been talking with the nuclear energy agency there. just how serious is this as we get word now that this explosion may have been more related to hydrogen? reporter: yeah, didn t involve the reactor itself, randi. and that is the good news. the explosion happened in the outer wall. this is a wall that surrounds the casing of the reactor. so it wasn t the casing of the reactor, it wasn t the reactor, it was the outer wall and destroyed part of that wall. and also the roots. they re saying no harmful material was released into the

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110312:14:18:00

proximity. the thing that s really frustrating and caused great concern about this is whenever you have the earthquakes and the tremo tremors, this weakens buildings. and some of them are just barely standing at this point. when you have an additional aftershock, it puts them into a further weakened state. and knowing there s concern about the structural fortitude of the nuclear power plant, any time you have an aftershock or shaking, there s a potential of further damage. and of course, we re going to watch very carefully. but you have to keep in mind, though, this kind of activity, seismic activity. and to have earthquakes along these islands is common place all around the pacific. happens in north america, parts of south america, wherever it s in contact with the pacific ocean, the largest geographical figure. we re going to watch for you very carefully. this story is certainly far from

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110312:13:35:00

as we saw, that monster wave hit the northeast of the country. it happened some 15 to 20 minutes after the quake struck. and that is what is just frightening. you say to people it s not@earthquake that has caused all this damage, it is, in fact, the tsunami. the monster wave, the 10-meter wave that engulfed everything in its wake. we ve seen those frightening pictures. and we spoke to a reporter, andrew, a local reporter who managed to get up to some of the hard-hit areas, which north of where i am here in sendai. and he said that in one particular part there was some 200 to 300 bodies, and he said house after house after house had been destroyed. as you say, the death toll is expected to surpass 1,000, and there are 700 people missing. but as we as the days go by,

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110312:14:11:30

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110312:14:11:30
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