8.8 Earthquake Hits Japan; Please Keep Our Friends In Japan In Your Prayers

Update 10:22 AM
Some helpful links put together by GOOGLE.

Japanese Quake Person Finder

Pacific Tsunami Warning Center

News, media, maps and other resources related to the disaster

Recent Earthquakes Near Japan

Also, Al Jazeera has a live blog covering the disaster.

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Here are few videos to show the seriousness of the earthquake!! Please keep our friends in Japan in your prayers this morning. It was an 8.8 magnitude earthquake.

Live tsunami watch via CBS

This video from Sendai shows men at work when the earthquake hits as well as a shocking view of cars floating down a river after the tsunamis:

On-the-ground video of the earthquake — likely an aftershock — in Japan:

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