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On. its been days since the 9.0 huge earthquake. just about only a little less than an hour ago there was just a 5.3 aftershock off the coast. all those red dots are aftershocks that were still dealing with. its still shaking, but obviously were not getting the huge ones that we did a day or two ago. right now the wind is light on shore up the coast from tokyo to sendai. a cold front moves through, behind the cold front, northwest winds wednesday, thursday, friday. if anything did happen to the ...

Collecting links to organizations that are mobilizing relief efforts in japan and on that page youll also find a lick to googles people finder aimed to reunite those separated in all that chaos. again, thats at cnn.com/impact. well, crews searching for the missing arent just up against the clock theyre also battling cold weather in japan and jill brown joins us from the international weather center with more on that because, of course, its critical that the weather plays some positive part i...

These are all just since friday. and the dots, this is were looking at a live update from the usgs. so this is something you can look at on your own computer. ive just been living it up and watching it. and since ive been in, ive seen probably about one to two of these aftershocks an hour. so here is what youre looking at. the yellow says that its been in the past week. the orange past day. its been in the past hour, its red. so this one is orange now. but about ten minutes ago, it was red. acco...

And the passengers and witnesses tell police the bus was swerving before the accident. bill: wow. okay, back on japan, right now as it relates tots nuclear power issue, we are -- to the nuclear power issue and theres a number of nuclear power plants in the u.s., in general the mississippi river cuts down around here and the majority of the nuclear power plants are east of the mississippi river and we wanted to see abouti izseismic activitn the u.s. going back to 1900 and this is what we found, i...

Dots, 6.2, 6.5, every day. >> reporter: and reports now that for the next three days a 40% chance of aftershocks 5 or above. bob bazell, thanks so much. i know youve gotten no sleep at all. thanks for talking to us. one more thing, richard, about these aftershocks. today i was on the 14th floor of our hotel. you could feel one. unlike anything ive ever felt. these buildings are meant to withstand these shocks but for a good several minutes you could hear the building swaying. you could hear it c...

Changes as well. that axis changes a little bit. and interesting to note as theyre upgrading to 9.0 earthquake, that ties them for the fourth strongest earthquake since 1900. and so just a little stronger than we dpekted and probably the devastating tsunami. thats a look at that and also want to point out. 228 aftershocks now weve seen since yesterday. we were talking about that we were at 154 and now 228. the initial quake 9.0 and the red dots you see 1228 aftershocks. and what youre looking at...

Warnings, earthquake warnings as soon as the information is available, which is very soon, and then if you live on the countryside, your often supplied with a wireless radio that has a connection between you and the local office, the local disaster prevention office, and theres all kinds of things they have. they have disaster prevention drills and poolgz and offices and the disaster prevention day. its a really big undertaking here. >> lucy craft, we appreciate your helping us not only report t...

>> guys, look at how many dots. this is 5.0 or above. there have been over 50 earthquakes, call them f foreshocforeshock s or aftershocks. before the earthquake, we had earthquakes before the big one. they were foreshocks. foreshadowing what to come. there were ten of them in the past four days. suddenly the big earthquake came. this is where the earthquakes have been. this is the newest one. although its only one kilometer deep. thats about half a mile. thats suspect to me. i dont like that. be...

May be trapped. so as that assessment takes place as we see daylight unfold, dozens of u.s. navy assets may get involved. i want to just show you the map that we have plotted out. these dots will show you where about eight navy warships already across the pacific are getting under way and setting sail for japan. just off japans east coast, the lead is the aircraft carrier "ronald reagan." it has a number of helicopters on board that will be able to help. other ships coming from malaysia and sing...

A boat being knocked off of a pier, in hawaii a lot of pier damage. its going to pull through much of the pacific basin. that is exactly how this works. youll notice this will continue to progress all the way down and eventually maybe even towards chile we can see water rises as the big bathtub sloshess across the pacific ocean. jon: youre on the surface of the ocean you dont really notice it, its not the gigantic wave that you see when it comes ashore. >> reporter: i was reading reports in hawa...