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Seismologists here constantly working on tracking earthquakes around the world. part of that is for the pager system, the rapid assessment of the global earthquake response. here is dr. paul earl. this is a rapid estimate of impact of the earthquake. this guess beyond the magnitude of the earthquake. that is not always going to tell you the potential impact. you need to know how many people were exposed to severe shaking and the strength of the infrastructure they have. reporter: this quake caused a fracture line 186 miles long. to give you perspective, it s longer than the coast of washington state. shepard: alicia acuna, get yourself well and feel better. live pictures now. these are the first live pictures now. saturday morning, 8 minutes after 7:00 a.m. now. in tokyo and beyond. these are our first live
a quarter to 3:00 in the afternoon on friday. the quake is nearly 8,000 times stronger than the one which devastated new zealand weeks ago. hundreds of aftershocks across japan have followed. so did a towering tsunami. with walls of water as high as 30 feet. four complete trains are now missing along the coast, train services are now suspended across much of the nation, stranding millions of commuters in the japanese capital. a ship carrying 100 people was swept away. thousands of homes are destroyed. even an airport is under water. hundreds are reported dead. hundreds even thousands missing. millions with no power. and the country in chaos. and continuing coverage just in to fox news. officials in japan are citing a safety regulatory board. kyodo news agency is now siting the safety panel as saying that the radiation level inside one of the reactors at the fukishima diachi nuclear plant is now 1,000 times higher than normal. that suggests to the locals that there has been a