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Ocean depth fiour miles and moving the same speed of a jumbo jet liner and imagine that racing to shore at 500 miles per hour. in the path of the tsunami, as it moved west, hawaii and the u.s. coast parts of california remain under a state of emergency. in crescent city, california the coast guard calling off the search for a man swept out to sea and feared dead in marinas and ports there's millions of dollars in damage. here is video of the tsunami wave tearing through a harbor in santa cruz. that wave as you can see moving the boats like they were toys as it rips through the dock and the pie...

>>clayton: when you see what exactly the tsunami looked like and the speed, this is a jumbo jet above the tsunami wave and a 747 crews at 567 miles per hour and the tsunami wave traveled 500 miles per hour. this is significant because people did not have a chance to get out of the way. the earthquake was 78 miles per hour off the coast. so just 15 minutes later here comes the tsunami so they have warping systems in japan people did not have adequate time to get out. >>dave: the speed at 500 miles per hour is at the pack in the middle of open ocean but as it approaches land it slows. the tsunam...

Continuing coverage of the break willing news out of japan. that 8.9 magnitude quake. it spawned a killer wave that struck 130 mill kilometers. sendai japan. cars toppled over and buildings. this is a regular season in northern japan. an ordinary street where people would have been walking. the earthquake struck at 2:46 p.m. local time. you're seeing mangled cars, the wreckage of homes, and here some sort of area in northern japan that may have suffered flooding. somebody wave ago white sheet there asking for help. asking for rescue. >> as we're now learning, it was the earthquake one disaster...

Basically held on to the outside of our house. you couldn't even stand up. at the peak of these waves that were washing over the ground, you literally could not stay on your feet. you have to crouch down in a ball or put your back against something so you didn't fall. that's exactly what we did for the length, the duration of it. it was probably two minutes and felt like it was a lot longer. >> are you saying that you live there? you're actually traveling there? >> i actually live here. i've lived here the last eight years and i live on the west side of the city in a little section of tokyo. a...

Do you go under sort of -- i don't know. a window frame? what do you do? this is someone who said, oh, my god, the building is going to fall. i mean, that feeling is very, very scary. i remember even in haiti when i was covering the haiti earthquake aftermath i'm talking 6.1, 6.2 after-shocks. your heart pounds. you think you are going to get trapped in a building. no worse feeling. you saw there from our i-reporter the emotions that coarse through your body as you think this might be it for me, this building might fall on my head. >> more than a dozen after-shocks since then and they are not ...