According to scientists, a cataclysm on the San Andreas Fault would be 50 times stronger than 1994 Northridge quake.
Employees at the LA Regional Food Bank participating in The Great California ShakeOut in Los Angeles on Thursday, October 19, 2023. Staff stopped dropped and held on during the drill then evacuated the building and stopped dropped and covered in the parking lot for an after shock drill. Millions of people in government buildings, businesses, non-profits and schools throughout Southern California stopped everything for a minute at 10:19 a.m. on Thursday, Oct.
Employees at the LA Regional Food Bank just before the alarm sounded for The Great California ShakeOut in Los Angeles on Thursday, October 19, 2023. Staff stopped dropped and held on during the drill then evacuated the building and stopped dropped and covered in the parking lot for an after shock drill.
Pasadena High School students make their way to a field as they participate in the Great California Shakeout earthquake drill on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. The Pasadena students joined millions of people across the state participating in the drill. California State University campuses took part, along with Los Angeles Community College District campuses, Loyola Marymount University, USC, UCLA and other universities.
Officials believe that such a tectonic shift could produce waves of movement for hundreds of miles, over four minutes. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, some 2,000 people would die, tens of thousands would be injured and more than $200 billion in damage would result.Hundreds of aftershocks would ensue — a few of them nearly as big as the original quake, according to the USGS.
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