California has suffered some destructive earthquakes in the last few decades but much bigger quakes are possible.
More than 900 people could die from fire; more than 400 from the collapse of vulnerable steel-frame buildings; more than 250 from other building damage; and more than 150 from transportation accidents, such as car crashes due to stoplights being out or broken bridges.
Main freeways to Las Vegas and Phoenix that cross the San Andreas fault would be destroyed in this scenario; Interstate 10 crosses the fault in a dozen spots, and Interstate 15 would see the roadway sliced where it crosses the fault, with one part of the roadway shifted from the other by 15 feet, seismologist Lucy Jones, an author of the report, has said.The aqueducts that bring in 88% of Los Angeles’ water supply and cross the San Andreas fault all could be damaged or destroyed, Jones said.
Two others came close to catastrophe: the 27-story Hotel Grand Chancellor nearly collapsed; at the Forsyth Barr Building, 18 stories high, many occupants became trapped when both sets of stairways collapsed. So many buildings came tumbling down that Christchurch’s city center was cordoned off to the public, some areas for more than two years.
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