#San andreas quake vs san andreas movie

That's very important, because most Californians, you don't know where you're going to be when an earthquake hits. On earthquake preparedness and what's in her car earthquake kit This is actually why I've been working with the mayor's office and the city of Los Angeles to look at how we can strengthen our older buildings - because we can't take that financial hit of having our buildings unusable. What they showed in Los Angeles was most buildings standing but badly damaged, and that may indeed be the reality. The reality is they're a very serious threat to our pocketbooks. We think of earthquakes as a threat to our lives. So you're far more likely to die on the freeway than in an earthquake, if you live in California. We did a big study of a south San Andreas earthquake and we came up with a total of 1,800 dead, which is the equivalent of seven years of traffic fatalities just in Los Angeles County. You are extremely unlikely to die in an earthquake. On the movie's depiction of mass casualties and destruction We used to just say, 'Duck and cover.' Now we say, 'Drop, cover, hold on,' because in strong shaking, the table may be trying to go somewhere else. That's why going under a table is a good idea. So what you're trying to do in an earthquake is you're trying to protect yourself from flying objects.

And we've seen a bunch of injuries, people being hit by the door. In any modern construction, the doorway's no stronger than anywhere else and it usually has a door and that door is gonna be flopping back and forth during the earthquake. And it's true - if you're in a 200-year-old adobe house. And said, 'Wow, the door must be a good place to be,' and they started teaching that. doorways began, actually, from a Red Cross volunteer in the 1952 earthquake that saw a collapsed adobe house with the lintel still standing.

That in-the-doorway mythology has been floating around for a really long time. On the movie's portrayal of earthquake safety

#San andreas quake vs san andreas movie

Unfortunately, what they're doing in the movie has really been shown to not work. So now we can recognize that an earthquake's begun so quickly that we get the information to you before the shaking gets to you. When I started my career 30 years ago, I would have, 'Yeah, that's what we're trying for!' But everything we looked at, none of it worked. Dwayne Johnson plays a Los Angeles fire department helicopter pilot in the film.