oregon coast with tremendous force, i mean, you re talking, lit areally as we saw in japan. a 30 foot wall of water slamming from northern california up through southern british columbia and you know, if it s the summertime and there is he hundreds of thousands of people on our beaches here, it s going to be a really, really scary event. dave: are we anywhere near as well-equipped as japan was to handle that type of earthquake. no, the japanese are probably the best prepared people on earth, so, seeing what is happening in japan is a really, really frightening scenario for the folks in the pacific network. perhaps a wakeup call, james, we can only help. well, or james, sorry. or a quake-up call. alisyn: thank you, james. clayton: geology humor. alisyn: we appreciate you coming in this morning with this chilling prix. clayton: we saw what happened in seattle, with the earthquake in seattle.
i m sure red cross, i m convinced on the ground and help from the united nations and united states. and i think the red cross is also a good place to start. dave: thank you for the relevant information and you ve had a long morning and thanks for standing by. my pleasure. dave: all morning long. let s get over to rick reichmuth who has a look what could be happening now. and 120, 130 aftershocks. the latest i ve soon is 154 aftershocks and you see the official quake and the cluster of red, and 154 and those are aftershocks since the earthquake and that will continue for long time and a lot are now in the 5 to 5.8 range and latest 6.4. get over a 7.0 and those could cause tsunamis as well, smaller than .8, but there s a
bet to power everything in japan, the biggest economy in the world and that will slow down. the effects are for them not the united states. this is continuing and developing. clayton: when you said third largest nuclear power producer that means the effect on the people of japan, the infrastructure in.upon, in japan. they are not exporting that energy. guest: they have 56 nuclear reactors and 11 are shut down. and 30 percent of the electricity for the nation is produced by nuclear. that is very high. the united states, 50 percent of our electricity is based on coal, the dirty energy and that is why the japanese wanted to go this route to be pore more environmentally friendly. dave: the debate has begun about the safety and nuclear power effort. the price of oil dropped a
damage in the the city and minor compared to this and how many people live on house boats in seattle and imagine those people s homed washed away. dave: an explosion rocks a nuclear power plant in japan. radiation has leaked out. right now there are fears of a meltdown. details moments away. [ folk pop ]
the key is, how long the exposure is and how close you are to it, and that is most important so we did not know the amount and people have been evacuated from 12 miles and that is a good start. if we could get medical supplies to the people in the region is it important to take anything? guest: well there are things to protect the thyroid and if you are close to the reactor, if i was there i would not tell people in tokyo to take it but if the area i would say this are things to take for the three reside. we are looking at rapidly growing cells, in the g.i. tract and fertility issues and loss of hair. dave: these are based on things we do not know but we know the tsunami has affected hundreds of thousands. what medical issues arise talking about tsunami and people