this happening about 300 kilometers off the coast of sendai. sendai being about 250 kilometers north of tokyo. what we felt here was quite a strong quake. it went on for about 90 seconds. the thing that stands out in my mind is the noise, the violent shaking. in terms of the scene in tokyo, i hear cars moving behind me. it's just after 6:00 here in tokyo, people seem to be getting back to their lives, but a good wake-up call on a friday evening. we'll be watching closely to see what happens up in miagi prefecture. atika? >> thank you for that, alex. as alex mentioned, that tsunami warning seems to be localized to the miagi prefecture area off the east coast of japan. let's get more details on that from pedro at the weather center. what can you tell us? >> we're analyzing the quake, very similar to where the march 11th 9.0 was. 36 kilometers deep. that's the concern. any time you have a quake sha that shallow, the area felt a long distance from the center, almost 300 kilometers away from sendai. moderate shaking being felt nearly 500 kilometers

this all happened near the city of sendai.hat is the same place that was hit hard by a 9.0 quake in march of 2011. no reports of any damage, and the reported injuries appear to be non-life threatening. >>> u.s. warships are now heading towards north korea. this is prior, of course, to a planned rocket launch there. the ships are equipped with advanced radar and missile defense systems. the communist state wants to launch a satellite into orbit, allegedly using technology banned by the united nations. at the live desk, melissa mollet, news 4. >>> the owner of a bangladesh clothing factory where over 100 people were killed in a fire last june lost his fire certification in june. he was only allowed to build a three-story facility. he illegally expanded it to eight floors and was adding a ninth. >>> this morning civilians in syria are being warned not to go to the country's airport. the military is targeting damascus airport, saying civilians and airlines should not go near it. this comes as the world watches to see if the govern

areas of miyagi prefecture evacuated to higher ground out of concern over tsunami. 15 flights at sendai airport in the northeast were canceled because the airport is in the tsunami zone. two nuclear power plants that were damaged in last year's quake, including the fukushima daiichi plant, did not suffer any damage. the powerful earthquake prompted local authorities to call for the evacuation of coastal areas in fukushima, miyagi, and iwate prefectures, but some residents say information about the quake and the tsunami alert failed to reach them. >> translator: the shaking lasted for a long time. but i didn't hear any information from the municipality. i decided to evacuate on my own. >> translator: i'm all right now. >> translator: i ran away as soon as i felt the big tremor. we promised to gather here in case of an emergency. >> translator: it was really scary. i was worried about my grandchildren. >>> president benigno aquino has visited areas of the philippines devastated by this week's typhoon. patchari raksawong has more details from bangkok. >>> president aquino's visit comes as

areas of miyagi prefecture evacuated to higher ground out of concern over tsunami. 15 flights at sendai airport in the northeast were canceled because the airport is in the tsunami zone. two nuclear power plants damaged in last year's quake, including the fukushima daiichi plant, did not suffer any damage. the powerful earthquake prompted local authorities to call for the evacuation of coastal areas in fukushima, miyagi, and iwate prefectures, but some residents say information about the quake and tsunami alert failed to reach them. >> translator: the shaking lasted for a long time. but i didn't hear any information from the municipality. i decided to evacuate on my own. >> translator: i'm all right now. >> translator: i ran away as soon as i felt the big tremor. we promised to gather here in case of an emergency. >> translator: it was really scary. i was worried about my grandchildren. >> president benigno aquino has visited areas of the philippines devastated by this week's typhoon. patchari raksang has more details from bangkok. >>> president aquino's visit comes as the death toll fr

this is from sendai. realize, you see the buildings shaking, this is more than 200 miles away from the center of this quake. as frightening as that must have been, they didn't know how strong the quake was at the time it was happening. and the buildings are shaking like this. there's also scenes of folks trying to cram into train stations because warning sirens were going off all along the coastline of japan, telling people to get away from the shore. they knew this was going to be a powerful quake. and they knew there was a chance of a tsunami. we asked akiko fujita to set up the scene for us. she's in tokyo right now. good morning, akiko. >> reporter: this morning's quake was reminiscent of the large quake last year in so many ways. it hit just after 5:00 in the afternoon. we felt the shaking in our tokyo bureau. but it got stronger and stronger and stronger. it lasted several minutes. then, the warnings for that tsunami. we heard one of the network anchors at one point call out to the residents, saying

the impact zone was off the coast of sendai, japan, where all the damage occurred in march of 2011.his earthquake, a little closer, further away from the coast but the earthquake from a year and a half ago was closer inland. but a much greater magnitude. this was the scene from march of 2011. it was up around a nine. this one about a 7.3. much more, much greater difference between the two. if you advance it one more time here, want to show you impact of march 2011. now the red scene here, the red circle, that's what we're looking at today. compare that to a year and a half ago. you had reverberations down in taiwan. you had areas west of beijing that felt it. entire area of east ish asia was impacted. that is good news now as we continue to track this, martha. martha: bill, thank you. thankfully this appears not to be as bad as last year's devastating 9.0 magnitude quake and tsunami that hit on march the 11th. the disaster triggered a meltdown at the fukushima power plant. it shut down all but two of japan's nuclear plants. the tsunami wave was massive. do you remember this? this wa

el tránsito fue detenido, para que los expertos chequearon posibles roturas en el pavimento, y en sendaiidad del mar, satcha pretto. >>> jorge, en este momento se saben los daños que podría ocasionar el terremoto. >>> al momento las autoridades no han dado información de daños ni heridos. >>> muchísimas gracias, jorge, por el informe en vivo desde el centro de satélites. >>>e sta mañana el fantasma del abismo fiscal está aún a 3 semanas de distancia, pero claro que afecta la economía, los empleados están preocupados porque sus impuestos pueden aumentar y sus cheques reducirse, del otro lado, los desempleados están asustados, porque la ayuda podría decrecer, republicanos y demócratas continúan en las negociaciones. >>> en medio del sombrío panorama económico, el presidente barack obama ha subido su apoyo en un 5% de su mandato, ahora 42% de la población cree que el país va en dirección correcta, 7 puntos más que en enero del 2009,. >>p>precisamente alentado por la confianza del pueblo de estados unidos a su trabajo, el presidente barack obama y su familia participaron en la ceremonia del