Earthquake Codes News Today

a warm welcome to our viewers joining us from the united states and all around the world. im paula newton. ahead on "cnn newsroom," the u.s. and canada authorized the takedown of a third high-altitude object in recent days, but just what was it? even as the death toll in syria and turkey climbs, officials are looking for answers. why did so many buildings crumble? ukraine says it shot down 20 drones from iran during a russian attack. ahead, a live report from kyiv. >> live from c...

expected to reach hurricane strength when it reaches puerto rico later today. we are live in the cnn weather center. ♪ gruesome discoveries in kharkiv, and accusations of depravity from a fleeing russian military, we will have that story coming up here in a second. japan issues a tsunami warning for an outlying area. right now we are looking at live pictures of the queen lying in state in westminster. its 9:00 a.m. in london, the final full day that people can come pay their resp...

Standard? >> earthquake codes are constantly improved, california has been developing and testing earthquake early warning system, they get triggered by arrival by the p waves and give you a countdown depending how far away the earthquake was until arrival of more surface waves, it did -- the la area has a beta test going on right now, it did detect these earthquakes but didnt send out notifications because the shaking was not going to be severe enough to be damaging in la, they are you now revi...

Traveling very close to san juan. some things that could happen. the eye is only 12 miles in diameter. its a small eye. not the entire island is going to get category 5 devastation. only where the eye travels. if we get to the east side it would be worse in st. thomas but we could get it offshore. thats the hope. if it goes to the south, it would spare san juan but still hit other cities. no one will win. we would like to avoid the 1 million plus people from going through a category 4, 5 hurrica...

"outfront" tonight, u.s. markets fall big time. it was a miserable day on wall street. the dow down 389 points. nasdaq and s&p 500 fell by more than 3%. the markets fear gauge sparked it. peter costas, a trader nearly 30 years, what happened today? >> well, theres a lot of uncertainty in europe. i think when the italian treasuries went over 7%, that scared a lot of people. if youre going to look at it, i am not negative on the market, today was a good day to buy, we will probably have ...

For anything this big or is it that japan was not quite there in terms of preparedness? whats your take? >> well, you know, candy, after the koby earthquake, president clinton sent me over there. japan has the most stringent seismic earthquake codes as anyone. in japan as well as united states we have inherited a stock of buildings that were built before the new seismic codes and getting those buildings retrofitted is extremely important. they have buildings, as well as we do, that are not up to...