Video reveals what took situation when a particular person used to be swimming right thru the broad earthquake

>> LET'S GET STRAIGHT TO THE BREAKING NEWS OVERNIGHT 75 PEOPLE TRAPPED INSIDE TUNNELS. THEY HAVE NOW JUST BEEN RESCUED AFTER AN EARTHQUAKE HITS TAIWAN. THE STRONGEST EARTHQUAKE TO HIT TAIWAN IN 25 YEARS. WE'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU, FOLLOW THIS VIDEO, SHOWING.

THROUGH A CLOUD OF DUST THAT YOU CAN SEE JUST SETTLING IN AS THE EARTHQUAKE CAUSED A MASSIVE LANDSLIDE, THE EPICENTER OF THE SEVEN MAGNITUDE QUAKE. IT WAS A MOUNTAINOUS AREA ON THE EAST COAST OF THE ISLAND. SO FAR THE DEATH TOLL STANDS AT AT EAST NINE, MORE THAN 800 PEOPLE ALSO.

HAVE BEEN WOUNDED, WERE STAYING VERY CLOSELY TO TRY TO ATTACK, TRACK THAT THE QUAKE HIT DURING THE MORNING COMMUTE AND LOOK AT THIS. THERE'S DASH CAMERA VIDEO JUST CAPTURING TRAFFIC COMING TO A STANDSTILL. IS IT ALL HAPPENS IN THE HIGHWAY VERY CLEARLY BEGINNING TO SHAKE THEN.

THERE'S ALSO THIS ONE MAN, HE WAS A ROOFTOP SWIMMING POOL WHEN IT ALL STARTED. AND YOU CAN SEE THE MASSIVE WAVES THAT WERE CAUSED BY THE TREMORS WERE ALSO GETTING A LOOK OF HOW IT UNFOLDED INSIDE ONE TELEVISION STUDIO. >> WATCH THIS.

>> VARY FROM >> SO SCARY NO MATTER WHAT THE ANGLE IS THAT WE'RE SHOWING YOU HERE FROM ALL OF THIS VIDEO. LET'S GET RIGHT OVER TWO. CNN'S HANAKO MONTGOMERY, WHO'S TRACKING ALL OF THIS FOR US FROM TOKYO. HANAKO US LATEST HIGH K, I MEAN, YEAH, LIKE YOU.

SAW THERE REALLY, REALLY ALARMING FOOTAGE COMING OUT OF >> TAIWAN THIS MORNING LOCAL TIME. SO AS YOU MENTIONED, WE KNOW THAT AT LEAST NINE PEOPLE WERE LEFT DEAD AND MORE THAN 900 PEOPLE WERE ACTUALLY LEFT TO INJURED BECAUSE OF THIS VERY.

POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE AND THE SUBSEQUENT AFTERSHOCKS. WE ALSO KNOW THAT OF THE NINE PEOPLE WHO DIED, ALL OF THEM WERE KILLED IN QUALITY AND COUNTY WHERE IT WAS VERY CLOSE TO THE EPICENTER AND ACTUALLY WHERE MOST OF THE SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE HAS BEEN TAKING PLACE. AND JUST.

FOR CONTEXT, A COLLIN COUNTY IS LOCATED ON THE EASTERN COAST OF TAIWAN. IT'S VERY POPULAR TOURIST NATION. IT'S ALSO A RURAL AREA. AND COINCIDENTALLY WHERE MOST OF TAIWAN'S EARTHQUAKES ACTUALLY OCCUR. SO WE ALSO KNOW THAT 56 PEOPLE WERE TRAPPED IN KUALA AND.

COUNTY ORIGINALLY THAT NUMBER WAS UP TO 131, BUT RESCUE OPERATORS WERE ABLE TO RESCUE ALL THE PEOPLE TRAPPED IN THOSE TUNNELS TO SAFETY. NOW TERMS OF THE RESCUE OPERATIONS, THE TIME WHEN HE'S DEFENSE MINISTRY HAS DISPATCHED MILITARY TROOPS TO COINCIDE AND TO WORK WITH LOCAL.

GOVERNMENTS, TRY TO GET PEOPLE TO SAFETY, GET THEM OUT FROM UNDERNEATH THE RUBBLES OF THEIR HOMES AND BUILDINGS. THIS IS REALLY COMMON PROTOCOL THAT YOU SEE IN TAIWAN WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU SEE A NATURAL DISASTER OF THIS MAGNITUDE, MILLION TERRY TROOPS DO WORK WITH LOCAL.

GOVERNMENTS TO TRY TO GET PEOPLE AGAIN TO SAFETY. BUT ONE THING THAT WAS ACTUALLY AFFECTING DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS TODAY WERE THE DAMAGED ROADS. >> YOU SAW >> A MAIN HIGHWAY FROM TAIPEI, THE CAPITAL OF TAIWAN, TO.

COLLIN COUNTY, ACTUALLY A PARTIALLY DESTROYED SO MILITARY TROOPS TZACHI USE SOME AIRCRAFT TO GET TO THAT PART OF THE ISLAND. NOW, WE ALSO HAVE TO REMEMBER THE CONTEXT OF THIS, OF THIS EARTHQUAKE. IT HAPPENED JUST A DAY BEFORE TOMB SWEEPING DAY, WHICH IN THE CHINESE.

SPEAKING WORLD IS A DE, WHEN PEOPLE VISIT THEIR, THEIR ANCESTORS GRAVES AND GIVE THEM OFFERINGS. AND REMEMBER THEIR LOVED ONES. BUT OF COURSE FOR MANY PEOPLE IN TAIWAN, THOSE PLANTS HAVE BEEN DISRUPTED AS THEY HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE RUBBLE AND THE AFTERMATH OF THE.

MOST POWERFUL EARTHQUAKE. THEY'VE SEEN IN THE LAST 25 YEARS, KATE THIS TERRIFYING AS WE'RE WATCHING THIS VIDEO, MUCH MORE TO COME, YOU'RE GOING TO STAY CLOSE TO IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. HANAKO, JOHN. YEAH, JUST >> REMARKABLE IMAGES THERE.

THERE WAS A TSUNAMI WARNING IN PLACE, ACTUALLY SEVERAL IN SEVERAL COUNTRIES THEY HAVE SINCE BEEN LIFTED. LET'S GET THE LATEST FROM UROLOGISTS, ELISA RAFFA ALISYN. WHAT CAN YOU TELL US THIS MORNING? >> YEAH. THANKFULLY THOSE WERE LIFTED ON THIS MORNING, BUT.

YEAH, TRACKING THOSE MASSIVE SEVEN POINT MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE JUST OFF THE EAST COAST THERE OF TAIWAN, THAT WAS PRETTY SHALLOW. WE ARE FINDING LIKE WE'VE SEEN ON THE VIDEO, ALL THE STRUCTURAL DAMAGE LANDSLIDES, A LOT OF THESE BUILDINGS HAVE HEAVY WOOD FRAME.

SAME CONSTRUCTION. SOME OF THE AFTERSHOCKS HAVE BEEN AS MUCH AS SIX POINT IN MAGNITUDE. WITH THE BUILDING'S KIND OF ALREADY LOOSEN THEIR FOUNDATION FROM THE FIRST EARTHQUAKE IS NOT GOING TO TAKE MUCH IN THOSE AFTERSHOCKS TO CAUSE FURTHER DAMAGE. NOW, A MAGNITUDE SEVEN.

POINT ON THE RICHTER SCALE FOR AN EARTHQUAKE IS VERY RARE WORLDWIDE. WE ONLY AVERAGE BRIDGE ABOUT 15 PER YEAR. THAT'S ACROSS THE WORLD TO GET SOMETHING THIS INTENSE. AND THEY ARE MOST COMMON IN THIS AREA OF THE WORLD. WE CALL IT THE RING OF FIRE BECAUSE.

THAT'S WHERE NEARLY 450 OF OUR VOLCANOES, 90% OF THE WORLD'S EARTHQUAKES ALL HAPPENED IN THIS AREA. AND THAT'S BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE THE EDGE OF TWO MASSIVE TECTONIC PLATES MEANING AND WHEN THOSE PLATES START TO MOVE AND SHAKE AND RUB UP AGAINST EACH OTHER, THAT'S.

WHEN YOU HAVE THESE MASSIVE EARTHQUAKES. AND THIS IS THE RING OF FIRE. LOOK AT WHERE IT GOES UP THE WEST COAST OF THE US, AND THEN ALL ACROSS EASTERN ASIA AND SOUTH EASTERN ASIA. AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHERE WE SEE MOST OF THE WORLD'S EARTHQUAKES IN THIS RING OF.

FIRE SO TAIWAN KIND OF WHERE IT'S SITUATED DID IS PRONE TO THESE MASSIVE EARTHQUAKES, THOUGH THEY ARE PRETTY RARE NOW IN THE CLEANUP FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS, WE ARE LOOKING AT SOME SHOWERS POSSIBLE OVER TAIWAN, WHICH ISN'T GOOD FOR RESCUE CREWS AND FOR CLEANUP.

ARE LOOKING AT SHOWERS. TEMPERATURE IS ABOUT AVERAGE A LITTLE BIT ABOVE AVERAGE IN THE MIDDLE AND UPPER 70s WITH THE RAIN BY THURSDAY AND INTO FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, WHICH AGAIN COULD BE A PROBLEM WITH RESCUE CREWS AND TRYING TO CLEAN UP SOME OF THIS DAMAGE.

AND YOU CAN SEE THE SHOWERS THAT REALLY ROLL OFF OF MAINLAND OF CHINA THERE AS WE GO THROUGH THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS THROUGH TODAY THROUGH THURSDAY, FRIDAY, AND GOING INTO THE WEEKEND. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE RESCUE CREWS WILL HAVE TO CONTEND WITH. BUT.

THE AFTERSHOCKS CONTINUED. THAT'S SEVEN POINT MAGNITUDE WAS THE FIRST ONE. AND WE'LL HAVE TO KEEP WATCHING THESE AFTERSHOCKS AND HOW THEY CAN ALREADY KIND OF ROCK VULNERABLE STRUCTURES THAT ARE READY FALLEN AND THE DAMAGE IS ALREADY THERE. SO SOMETHING.

THAT WE'LL HAVE TO KEEP WATCHING THROU

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