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>> we think. it was closer to the coast so the shaking was worse. probably than the big quake. but the tsunami threat, significantly less. >> were going to expect to see continuous waves? >> oh, no, the tsunami warnings, waves are done. >> good deal, thanks, chad. leaders of the house and senate are due at the white house in just about an hour for crisis talks with the president. they are racing the clock for a deal to fund the government through this fiscal year. that means from now until sep...

Place. chad, what ryan is experiencing there web says hes been through 200 shakes, earthquakes but this is really different. hes really starting to feel the impact of this happening again. how serious is this? >> with a 9.0, youll get aftershocks for six months, maybe a full year. this was only a 7.1. i say "only," because i want to put this in perspective. it was closer to the coast so therefore maybe more shaking. it was deeper, so a little bit more buffering, less shaking. compared to a 9.0, ...

Magnitude scale, either one is considered a major quake. you can see here the one that occurred on march 11th, was considered 8 or more. in terms of the violent shaking, the shake map shows most of the shaking that was felt was fairly concentrated to that region. heres the epicenter, areas to the closest in yellow indicate very strong shaking to strong or moderate shaking. unfortunately a lot of structures are still hanging on very barely after the major earthquake that occurred there. thats why...

Japanese meteorological agency is for tsunami height about two meters. approximately six feet. it may not seem that high, but it certainly can vary depending on the depth of the area of the coastline, the height of the wave when it comes into the shoreline. real is something to be monitoring. anyone thats under a tsunami warning immediately has to leave the coastal area and seek higher ground. i can show you a better view of where the warning is. its a smaller area where we have the warning here...

Weve got a lot of breaking news. in japan, tsunami warnings were canceled just minutes ago but not before a new wave that smash the northeastern coast. the trigger, a 7.1 earthquake which shook tokyo several hundred miles to the south. tokyo electric evacuated workers at the crippled fukushima nuclear plant. the quake was centered off miyagi, the same region where the original 9.0 quake hit almost a month ago. want to check in with our cnn i-reporter ryan mcdonald. you and i spoke just within th...

Are you clear whether or not youre in a place of safety in. >> as far as what, the building structure? >> all of it, the building structure, the area. i dont know where you are in troelgz myagi. wean -- in relation to myagi. we know theres a tsunami warning for some areas. have you heard that where you are? >> no. im 35 miles from the coast. and actually 35 miles from the reactor, as well. im well within safety distance. one of the big problems is a bunch of my friends went down to the coast tod...

Put out the tsunami warning, they anticipated the tsunami height to be between half a meter and two meters. so we have reports of the initial wave coming in as a meter. remember, a tsunami is a series of waves, its not just one wave. typically it could be up to four waves. and generally speaking, the second or third can be larger than the first. so its important to know that just because one wave has hit, this may not be over yet. the warning is still in place. and this was all the result of an ...

Keep them cool, you have a great deal of -- of instability is the ward im struggling to find. so in other words, that these buildings are taking on tons of water, they were never meant to hold. and now theyre being shaken violently as a result of a 7.4-magnitude earthquake. no reports of damage up there as yet. but it is too early to really tell, all we can tell you is what tepco tells us, and that is that they have evacuated their personnel. we also know that up in moriocha, the town is in blac...

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