Page 6 - Damage Zone News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Like we did yesterday, land there in marsh harbour where the airport just opened up after being under water for days, and it is surreal. you keep waiting to drive to get out of the damage zone and then you realize it is simply everywhere you look on every block, everywhere. and so the first thing that really stood out when we touched down, there were dozens of people gathered just outside all of the airport buildings. these are mostly uninjured folks that haven't needed those critical rescues that the military has been conducting but they have nowhere else to go at this point in time. a lot of...

A mile away from the original opening. >> get out of the wind. >> reporter: lay lana estates, this is all of the home consumed by lava. it is more than one of 40 structures destroyed by kilauea. this fissure, the 16th to open, bringing new concern that the damage zone could widen. >> the first thing that i noticed was i heard what sounded like a jet turbine. >> reporter: at times spewing dozens of feet into the air, it opened on private land relatively far from the community of leilani estates, where most the damage has been concentrated. it's not just the lava, but cracks in the road that the...

Up of old lava flows from the vo volcano's core, scorching a math a mile away from the original opening. this is all that's left of one home consumed by lava. it's one of nearly 40 structures destroyed by kilauea. bringing new concern the damage zone could widen. >> heard what sounded like a jet turbine. >> reporter: at times spewing dozens of feet into the air it opened on private land relatively far from the cay lonnie estates. >> we're setting up a crack station just so we can check and see how they're moving. >> reporter: for nearly 2,000 evacys the ru evacuees, the rush on for supply. whi...

Left of this apartment complex. this car no doubt parked here, its side view window completely punched out. we hear meteorologists when tornadoes come through talk about getting to the lowest level of a building. these buildings behind us show you why, the roofs ripped right off, but the lower levels sustained almost no damage. we do know there were people trapped in some of the apartments here, but to the best of our knowledge, no one was killed specifically in this area. now, police here do have much of the damage zone blocked off from the perimeter, and it is a wide area. again i said the s...

Time. there are other faults running under los angeles. >> a lot of them. >> yes. actually, the los angeles metropolitan area has over 100 faults that are long enough to produce at least a magnitude 6. and lots of smaller ones, as well. so around all of our big faults, we see what we call a damage zone with a lot of little ones we don't try to name. this was in the damage zone around the puente hills thrust, an earthquake we only discovered in the last 30 years. it does not come to the surface, when he to use various techniques to image the interior of the earth. it looks very much like the ty...