Japan continues to uncover the full extent of the devastation from this morning's massive earthquake; meanwhile, tsunami waves head towards the West Coast of the U.S., and South America. The latest news updates are below.

This Thursday, why not tune into CNN's Larry King Live on CNN? CNN reports that musician Wyclef Jean might announce his already-mostly-confirmed candidacy for president of Haiti—but you'll have to watch CNN to find out! [CNN]

[Former President Bill Clinton and actor Sean Penn shake hands in Haiti during a memorial ceremony for the sixth-month anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Port-Au-Prince as Haitian President Rene Preval looks on worriedly. Pic via AP.]

Along with the hurricane, southern Mexico was hit by a magnitude 6.5 earthquake this morning.

A series of earthquakes hit Indonesia today—the largest at 7.0 magnitude—triggering tsunami warnings.

After an Iranian cleric said earthquakes were God's punishment for scantily-clad women, the pro-scantily-clad lobby of womanity declared today Boobquake, a day to flout and disprove the cleric by baring your boobs. And then a 6.9-magnitude earthquake occurred in Taiwan!

At least 300 people are dead after a 7.1 earthquake hit China's earthquake-prone Qinghai Province.

In the aftermath of Haiti's devastating earthquake, Obama has emerged as a leading criminal figure and "menacing underworld force" controlling a "robbery empire," reports The Washington Post. No, no, not President Obama—Haitian Gang Lord Kidnapper Obama.

The ground is still acting up in Mexico in the wake of Sunday's 7.2 quake.

Mike Turber claims to hold the world record for flinging stacks of quarters off your elbow and catching them. Yesterday, he tried for a new record. After he carefully balanced 70 quarters on his elbow and prepared to catch them...

Using a complex computer model, NASA scientists concluded the earthquake in Chile may have altered the Earth's rotation, shortening each day one-millionth of a second. And the planet's axis may have moved three inches. So: Even worse disaster than expected.

After the Haiti earthquake, a lot of people had a problem with the media referring to the looting there as "looting". This was racist, it was argued. Now white people in Chile are looting. Kumbaya.

Yele Haiti, Wyclef Jean's troubled charity, will get just $1 million, or 2.8%, of the more than $35 million raised so far by the Hope for Haiti Telethon that Jean co-hosted.

Our Scientology sources tell us there's an interesting reason that some members of the church are swarming into Haiti. And it's even more appalling than you might have thought — tragedy profiteering.

A second crew of Scientology ministers and medics are now in Haiti at John Travolta's behest. This time he was literally behind the wheel of the Boeing 707, wife Kelly Preston by his side.

Wyclef Jean has defended the financial irregularities of his foundation Yele Haiti by arguing he started it with his own money. However internal documents obtained by Gawker reveal that the former Fugee made no contribution during its first year.

The AP reports that a second earthquake, 6.1 on the Richter scale, hit Haiti about 35 miles north-west of Port-au-Prince at 6.03am.

Wyclef Jean's aspirations for his foundation, Yele Haiti, to be more than just a celebrity vanity project have long been outstripped by realities on the ground, people who've worked in Haiti for the organization tell Gawker.

Google Earth has added a plugin to access updated satellite maps of a post-quake Haiti. On their blog, the Earth and Maps team invites users to help them aggregate location-based information for disaster relief. ReadWriteWeb does before and after screencaps.

CNN is about where we all are when it comes to the earthquake in Haiti: Scouring social networks for eyewitness accounts. This live-streaming Canadian videoblogger just got called, on air, from a CNN producer looking for sources in Haiti.