Destruction of LA by earthquake coming soon!

[milquetoast]

No, I don't, but I'm sure it was. I must have been really scared. I thought it was the end of the world. My grandmother always talked about earthquake weather, about it being extremely hot as a precurser to earthquake activity. I remember going back to school after a week or so. The lunch benches were moved to the center of the playground, and we all cheered as the wrecking ball took down a damaged 3 story wing of our school. Yeah, I was glued to the screen for '94, such pretty blue sky days.

[malumot1]

hmmmm...4 pages of answers and only one is correct (see Mojoun's below)

San Andreas would not be THAT bad in most parts of LA.....Antelope Valley would be toast, however.

Originally Posted by majoun

Depends what fault.

A quake on the Newport Inglewood Fault would be DEVASTATINGLY bad. Bye bye Westside, LAX, South Bay, Long Beach, and much of OC! There hasn't been a major quake on the Newport Inglewood fault since the 1933 Long Beach quake, and a big one on that fault would kill a huge number of people. (It's so called because it goes into the Pacific in Newport Beach, and passes through Inglewood.)

A quake on the Southern San Andreas in the past would haven't caused much damage, but due to the growth in population in the Inland Empire it would be quite deadly and cause a large amount of property damage if it happened now. Also, with more skyscrapers downtown, there'd be some considerable damage there. There'd be damage throughout the whole county to varying degrees though. The San Andreas Fault, however, doesn't menace L.A. as much as it does the Bay Area.

The last two "big ones" have both been on faults far smaller than the Newport Inglewood let alone the San Andreas, in the northern San Fernando Valley, don't know if it could happen again.

[desertdawgx]

LA will be toast when the San Andreas rocks as all the splinter faults in the LA basin will rupture,not to mention most of LA is in a liquifaction zone.When the big one hits they estimate at least 5 minutes of violent shaking.All freeways will be closed and people will be in gridlock trying to escape,fire,hospitals will be overwhelmed.It will make New Orleans look like a picnic.Riots,looting,violence will ensue.If we get a big quake expect hundreds of thousands of deaths and casualties.