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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (860667)	5/29/2015 1:33:14 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574096

The novel describes, in retrospect, the history and culture of California, and its influence on the rest of the US, after an unspecified date in 1969, wherein the state suffers a Richter scale 9 earthquake and the populous coastal regions west of the San Andreas Fault sink into the Pacific Ocean. The interesting thing...........and maybe this wasn't known back when the book was written............but a quake of 9 or 9.6 magnitude would not be possible on the SA fault. According to seismologists, quakes that big occur only in subduction zones. The SA is not that kind of fault. I think the biggest quake on the SA can only be an 8.2 or 8.3........big......but not nearly as big as a 9.6 like in the movie.