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> When people talk about the next big quake, why do they always talk
> about SF and not LA? SF is right on a fault, I know, but then they had
> a big quake in 1994 in LA. Couldn't there theoretically be a huge one
> in LA?
Of course (and, in fact, they have as recently as 1994). The San Andreas
fault runs up the coast of most of California. Additionally, the entire
west coast is on the subduction zone of the Pacific tectonic plate. There
have been major earthquakes from Alaska to Mexico.
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