San andreas fault movie
And, based on this history, the magnitude would be closer to magnitude 8.3, not magnitude 9.6.
Kent notes that in reality this has not been seen before, and although nothing is ruled impossible, this is a highly unlikely scenario given the past records of both historic and paleo-earthquakes.
Hollywood has decided to go "wall-to-wall" and depict a rupture of the entire San Andreas Fault, which extends from near the Mexican border to almost Oregon. With back-to-back disasters, starting in Nevada, the earthquake works its way from southern Nevada's Hoover Dam to Los Angeles then on to San Francisco. "Predictably, for a disaster movie, San Andreas exaggerates for the audience which, as a seismologist, can be a good thing, as it wakes people up to the real-life dangers facing those along fault lines." "As a couple of our graduate students can attest, after recently riding out the magnitude 7.3 earthquake 'aftershock' in Katmandu, even with their poor building standards, destruction in Nepal looked nothing like that seen in San Andreas," Graham Kent, director of the University of Nevada, Reno's Nevada Seismological Laboratory, said.
The latest disaster movie, San Andreas, has drawn considerable attention, especially when coupled with the real-life earthquake disaster that struck Nepal April 25 and the magnitude 4.8 gentle-reminder earthquake 100 miles north of Las Vegas that rattled homes and highways throughout the valley on May 22.