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Kathmandu. it's an historic landmark. it collapsed. and there was a viewing tower about eight floors above. there's still unconfirmed reports of people here trapped in this rubble. it just goes to show you, some of these older buildings, old structures have crumbled underneath the strength of this brute force. this 7.9. here's the latest from the u.s. good survey. epicent epicenter, 81 kilometers northwest. if it was deeper we'd have more ground, more earth to absorb the shock waves. unfortunately, this is a rather shallow earthquake.

Still, strong quake. it's about 4:00 a.m. now over there. >> it is 4:23 a.m. in japan. this hit about 25 minutes ago. >> that's right. here's the thing. there are two nuclear reactors in nagano. they, at the moment, our initial report is they continue to operate. as we spoke to a nuclear expert earlier. there are many nuclear facilities. >> over 50. >> over 50 of them. no tsunami alert is being issued right now. we're keeping an eye on this. the interesting thing is this is not described at the moment as an aftershock. it's a different earthquake. >> it would be a separate earthquake with a se...

Process. >> reporter: did you try to kidnap these children? >> of course not. i came here to help the children. >> if anything breaks on this case, we'll take you there with the latest. after the earthquake we brought you the amazing story of a tiny infant pulled from the rubble alive. now a couple claiming to be her parents say they want their daughter back. we'll get an am follow up from elizabeth cohen. >> scientists are giving a sense of how powerful the quake was that hill chile. listen to this, moved the entire city of concepcion 10 feet to the west. concepcion is the second largest city...

That this was coming. >> well, this time -- we have an advance warning system, where the meteorology picks up the epicent epicenter. the secondary wave, that's usually what we define as earthquakes. the farther away you are for the primary tremor, it gives you that much time to give out warnings. that's what we got in tokyo. we were watching the parliamentary session. we must have had a good 30 seconds before the earthquake actually hit here. so as i look down the elevator hall, people are already lined up trying to walk down the stairs of the building. and we're in a building at least 40 stor...

See whether more nuclear generated electricity is part of our future. that's it for me now. brooke baldwin takes over with "newsroom". we are going to take you to libya. we'll take you to egypt, even texas over the course of the next two hours. first, it's wednesday morning in japan where aftershocks continue to rattle buildings and nerves as well. listen. >> oh, my god. oh, my god. oh, oh, oh! oh, my god. >> that is an ireport from tuesday in yokohama, south of tok tokyo. that is far from friday's epicent epicenter. north of there in fumeshima, the biggest concern is the tlets of that mel...