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[ screaming ] in-home security camera capturing another family there screaming as this earthquake, this 7.0 magnitude lasted 90 excruciating seconds as people were taking cover and sheltering in place. melissa is in anchorage. are you all right, first and foremost? >> yeah, we are all okay up here. >> okay, okay. good deal. it's my understanding you cannot leave your home because of this earthquake. can you tell me why? >> we just can't get out the gate closest to us because the bridge is shut down due to a

You really couldn't get light from outside the window either. >> all of this happening in the dark there in anchorage. blair, as you were on the phone there, as you were driving trying to get to a safer place, we want to listen to the local affiliate out of anchorage describing the damage in the area. >> the things that are all over there the blaglass doors are broken. if you were just tuning in, 7.0 magnitude earthquake. the reason this was so big is it was five miles north of anchorage. close to the center. 7.0 magnitude, a big one. you can hear alarms going off. 25 miles deep. this came on ...

>> one woman i spoke with said she's lived in alaska for 37 years and never felt like this. >> this was a rather long earthquake. it looks like it puts it at a minute and a half. most earthquakes of this significance only last for 30 seconds. the longer you have that violent shaking, the more time it has to trigger some damage. we're now up to 16 aftershocks after the initial 7.0 quake. when you talk about the area that felt it, it actually spreads out pretty wide.

>> there is only one radio station in town here so please be safe out there and hug your loved ones and give you updates as we welcome available. those are windows and windows blown out. computers flying and cameras toppling over. absolute destruction. over a 7.0 earthquake. hopefully you are safe wherever you are. if you are on kodiak island, get inland. i'm sure you will see a lot of people facebook living from around the anchorage area. we are waiting for the okay to go back in the building. there was a little bit of an aftershock.

Absolutely turn that off. a lot of the pipes are hard put in place. the copper pipe. your house starts shaking. if you can shut it off, do so. >> exciting panelling. no glass from the structures like this. >> a 7.0 quake that knocked the local stations off and there is