No doubt, the San Andreas can produce some pretty big shakers, but there’s other faults directly under Los Angeles that give geologists the heebie-jeebies more than the SA Fault.
The trailer for the movie is pretty over-the-top (to put it mildly) but then again, it’s a disaster movie, and generally, those tend to pretty over-the-top by the very nature.
My personal fave was 1974’s ‘Earthquake’, the one with Charlton Heston, Lorne Greene, George Kennedy and Richard Chamberlain; that was a pretty decent film - melodramatic, mind you - but the visual effects still hold up even now. The scene of the Columbia Records building shearing away if particularly well-done.
I grew up in Los Angeles, so needless to say, that flick made me a little paranoid when it popped up on TV a few years later, LOL.
The SA is about a mile and a half from my house. Even a 7 is gonna rock us pretty good.
Is that the one where the earthquake was followed by a nasty flood because the earthquake destroyed a huge dam?
I can't remember, in 1974, I was 5-years-old, but I think I saw it on reruns.