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It's a wide open area. but they never got that bridge built. it was pushed back in congress for the pork barrel spending that he was seeking. it's a wide open area. just north of that is wasilla. we just got a tweet from sarah palin, who is the most famous resident there. she said our family is intact. house is not. imagine that's the case for many, many others. so thankful to be safe following the earthquake. you got point mackenzie, just across cook inlet from anchorage. then you go further north and you have palmer and some of those outer suburbs of anchorage. but the area of point mackenzi...

Last 50 years. >> dana: when was the last one you remember? >> we have them, you know, every year. we have them all the time, little ones. the biggest one since i have been here 20 year, 2002. i believe it was a 7.6 up near denali. it did damage, but this was much more severe in anchorage even though because of the proximity, it was so close to anchorage and i think the depth was fairly shallow. >> dana: for the epi, center, tell me about that area. do people live up there? >> some do. i think it was at point mackenzie which is right across cook inlet from the city of anchorage. there's some i...

The bigger inconveniences are coming to light now. the train service throughout the biggest geographical state in the country has been suspended. not just in anchorage but the entire state. alaska's congressional delegation is about to hold a news conference. we'll bring that to you live. meantime, the very latest on what we're looking at here. dan springer in seattle with more on that. hi, dan. >> hi, neil. a lot of damage, this quick happened at 8:30. 7.0 magnitude. the magnitude came in earlier at 6.6, 6.7 but rose getting up to 7. it had and 19 miles under the surface at point mackenzie, w...

Have cancelled the tsunami warning. everybody that was asked to move the higher ground can now return to their desks or their homes or wherever they were going? >> that is correct. >> dana: mike angove, we appreciate you coming on. we'll stay in touch with you. dan springer, if you're still there, tell us about the epicenter. you said you know mount mackenzie is not highly populated but if it did this much damage 15 to 20 miles away from anchorage, what might it have done up there? >> reporter: point mackenzie is this rural area that could be a little suburb of anchorage. it's just across the ...

Of anchorage, alaska. the damage felt certainly all around there. we're getting reports of that. let's go to dan springer. you were covering this from the very beginning. let's start from the beginning. rerack this and tell us what happened. >> reporter: yeah. at 8:30 a.m. this morning, anchorage was hit with a massive earthquake, a major earthquake of 7.0. the magnitude came in at 6.7, then dropped to 6.6. now they've settled on 7.0. it happened just north of the city of anchorage in a place called point mackenzie. that is an area lightly populated. just across the cook inlet from anchorage. ...