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Subject: Re: Earthquakes in SF vs. elsewhere Posted on: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:12:51 EDT

richardfangnail@excite.com wrote:

> 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?

The San Andreas Fault is a major fault line that has a history of a huge
quake (magnitude 8) on the average every 140 years. The last one in San
Francisco was a magnitude 7.1. It caused massive damage and there were a
lot of people killed, but that would pale in comparison to a magnitude 8
quake. San Francisco is quite a bit closer to the fault line than Los
Angeles.