In “San Andreas”, the fault wakes up and causes a magnitude 9 earthquake in California. A disaster scenario far from being fiction, because the Big One, the earthquake that everyone fears, could occur by 2032…
It is an understatement to say that Dwayne Johnson is used to facing dramas and disasters of all kinds according to his filmography. In San Andreas, here he is in the skin of Ray, a helicopter pilot confronted with an earthquake of magnitude 9. A disaster caused by the awakening of the famous fault of San Andreas, located in California, at the junction of the plates Pacific and North American tectonics.
Here is the trailer for the film, broadcast on TF1 this Sunday evening…
Seismologists have predicted for years that California would be hit by a major earthquake caused by this geological fault. Every year, many earthquakes occur in the region, but not as large as in the film.
The most devastating ever recorded happened in San Francisco in 1906, killing 3,000 people and causing a gigantic fire that devastated the city. With a magnitude of 8.2, this earthquake directly inspired the screenwriters of San Andreas.
What about the famous Big One, THE earthquake that everyone fears, and rightly so? This phenomenon would indeed occur periodically, approximately every 150 years, with a 62% probability of occurring before 2032…
Built right on the San Andreas Fault, San Francisco, populated by 750,000 inhabitants and an agglomeration with ten times as many people, would certainly be devastated again, causing a collapse of the Californian economy, which represented it alone accounted for 14.5% of the GDP of the United States in 2018. Given its importance, one dares not imagine the effects of such a collapse on the economy of the entire country, and by extension on the rest of the world. .