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They were rear to recover bodies. this neighborhood 500 meters from the coast caught the full force of the devastating tsunami. every single home was damaged by the 10-meter wall of water, most beyond repair. this man scram boned top of his house, holding onto the roof for dear life. >> very lucky to be alive. >> lucky, very lucky. >> reporter: there was less than 30 minutes between the quake hitting and the monster wave devouring the coast. this is your house? this man managed to drive out just in time but his neighbors weren't lucky. this is a scene of complete and utter devastation, the pow...

And more than half are missing. we believe that as we go further north, further up the coast which was hit by that ten-meter monster wave, we're going to hear more and more stories like that. >> what about food, water, medical supplies? we understand that they're basically running out in sendai. >> reporter: yeah, they are running out here in sendai. but priority is being given to those -- that are coming into sendai. they have been making their way to the port and they're assessing the situation, seeing if anybody is still alive, trapped beneath the rubble, trapped in those collapsed building...

>> reporter: wolf, we just had a major aftershock here. it's the second one in the last couple of hours. so that's tsunami alert to sendai and much of japan on northeast coast is really and truly an alert. the concern is another quake will trigger another tsunami like the one we experienced on friday, that ten meter monster wave that engulfed so much of the coast. >> and the shaking that you're feeling right now, is it over with, this aftershock? how significant? you've been there now for a while. how significant was this aftershock, the tremor that you're feeling? >> reporter: it was signific...

That would make the earthquake underwater seven times more powerful than haiti. hard to get your mind around those numbers. >> let me briana back iin. she's in sendai. how are the people reacting to these aftershocks in speaking with some of them? >> reporter: people here in japan are quite used to earthquakes. i think that's what we really need to remember is that japan is prepared when it comes to earthquake. they're used to them. these aftershocks don't really phase the people here. the buildings are built so they're quake proof. it wasn't the earthquake that caused the devastation. it was ...

As we saw, that monster wave hit the northeast of the country. it happened some 15 to 20 minutes after the quake struck. and that is what is just frightening. you say to people it's not@earthquake that has caused all this damage, it is, in fact, the tsunami. the monster wave, the 10-meter wave that engulfed everything in its wake. we've seen those frightening pictures. and we spoke to a reporter, andrew, a local reporter who managed to get up to some of the hard-hit areas, which north of where i am here in sendai. and he said that in one particular part there was some 200 to 300 bodies, and he...