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‘The Big One’ May Not Be So Bad For Los Angeles – Report


The San Andreas Fault has long been predicted to ruin the city. But a new report suggests an alternative scenario.

While “This is only one scenario,” said study co-author Te-Yang Yeh, a postdoctoral researcher at San Diego State University, it is a rare outlook that movies and TV have always painted as a major disaster. The study has not yet undergone peer review, but appears on the preprint site ESS Open Archive. The quake simulations used in the ShakeOut project were not as detailed as today’s technology allows, Yeh told Live Science.

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