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Stri structural damage of the buildings. alaska airlines is back up and running and flights are going back to and from the airport. the airport is really emphasizeing to people that it is open again. earlier the roads to and from were closed. now they are saying the roads to and from the airport are open. the airport is open. the bad news is the train service across the state is not operating. the good news in alaska most of the train service is freight. it's not passenger. this earthquake, 7.0, stronger than the san francisco earthquake and the north ridge earthquake. the damage right now sig...

>> harris: we are getting reports in anchorage, alaska, now from local television there that people are being told to shelter and first pictures, fresh pictures coming in from the damage from a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that has hit alaska's largest city. some 298,000 people in this area. if the magnitude again, 7.0 was upgraded from a 6.6 not long ag ago. initially, they had said 7.0. the usgs revised down and now it has revised back up. also a shallower earthquake than we had first been told. putting in about 19 to 20 miles. we are seeing some pretty interesting damage reports of a lot of dam...

Geological survey. and those the people giving us the magnitude information. if you are with me by phone right now the moment can you tell me? >> just north of anchorage, alaska, there has been a 7.0 earthquake just a little over an hour ago. obviously very strongly in the area, several aftershocks reported so far. >> harris: is a lot of the information that we know already. why does it get revise like tha that? what is an indication that this was bigger than a 6.6? >> when the data first comes in, you try to get out the quickest and most accurate location and magnitude as soon as possible, as...

What is that close, the difference has in alaska, the difference in time between the two is only a second or two. ten seconds to reactivate. when the shaking starts, a lot of times it will start counting in seconds and they can basically tell from that when the violent shaking starts how far away the earthquake was rated. >> harris: we are going to continue to cover this. and he mentions and whether elements they are in some disagreement on how we can get to different places scientifically but i want to make it clear that an earthquake is not meteorological emma is geological and what you're s...

To us of the book buckled roads and we are starting to hear some pretty scary stories from people who were stuck inside places are choosing to be in five places. >> the picture that i saw was sent to me by a contact that i have up there with lisa murkowski's office and it was actually tweeted by somebody who is trying to pass on minnesota drive which is just south of downtown anchorage and it's a major road, a four lane road that goes through anchorage and it was buckled, you could see a car on the other side of that pavement, but it's completely torn up and again, that was an impassable road ...