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The scale of the devastation that has occurred. you see there cars tossed in amongst -- it looks like one big trash heap. but this is an area devastated by the force of nature. everything that stood in the path of the tsunami, of the results -- was the result of the quake and essentially battered and left in pieces. japan is prone to earthquakes because of its unique geological position. it sits on top of three major tectonic plates. one scientist is warning despite what happened, japan is still at risk for another major quake. this morning's quake is the most powerful to strike japan in recor...

Anderson cooper. just ahead, the latest on the nuclear emergency that danny witnessed first hand. what went wrong, what more could go wrong? and also what it looked like as the tsunami rolled ashore destroying everything in its path. >> the tsunami has already engulfed some cities. fires are breaking out due to the earthquake. in northeastern japan, tsunami waves of over four meters were observed. impressive resume. thank you.

Said it makes you feel like you're -- how small you are on this earth when that powerful -- something that powerful goes by. he said it was pushing anything and everything out of its way like it was nothing into the ocean. >> and the little town that he was in is basically destroyed? >> basically the way he explained, it is -- it's not a little town anymore. what they were -- you know, that's where they were headed, the little town they were staying in. the hotel, that's where they were all going together for the safe place. and they didn't know what had happened till they got there, and he sa...

Them changed suitings and they weren't totally in their dress attire to go out yet. he said they were just running out as fast as they could. >> so people were running out not even fully clothed. >> grabbing who they could to go with them. he went through glass. he told me he cut his feet. it kind of slowed them down. that's when he told me that's a good thing, because with him slowing down like that, a little bit of time it took, it kept him from getting the time frame for being right in the path of the tsunami. >> so he saw the wave of water coming? >> right. the way he explained to me, he s...

Station reactors with serious cooling problems, pressure building, reports of radiation venting at two of them. we'll stalk to a woman whose husband was in the plant. all the result of the fifth largest recorded quake in history, followed by this wave turning everything in its path into rubble. this is what it looked like. you can see it's not just seawater. there's debris, cars, trucks, houses being swept alone, battering everything in its path. the tsunami reaching the west coast where several people were swept out to sea. 8.9 was the quake, hundreds of times stronger than the one that level...