Jordan said he’s worried that the fictional earthquakes may look so overwhelming to some people that they decide it’s pointless to prepare. Both experts said their impressions of the final product were limited because they had seen only an early script and the film’s trailers. “Fire is probably one of the biggest dangers we face,” Jordan said.īoth Jones and Jordan were consulted early on by the “San Andreas” filmmakers, though neither was an official adviser on the film. The simulation suggested emergency crews would struggle to respond because of disrupted water service. area envisioned a big temblor touching off more than 1,000 fires. Other “San Andreas” images, such as widespread fires following the big shake, are more realistic, the experts said. “We expect serious damage to 1 in every 16 buildings in a real San Andreas EQ,” Jones tweeted Tuesday. ![]() Science: Even in a Great Quake, most seismically reinforced structures will remain standing, though some buildings are likely to collapse, while others probably would suffer extensive damage. “San Andreas”: The vast majority of large buildings across the center of Los Angeles appear to crash to the ground. “Now we are in fantasy territory,” Jones tweeted from the premiere. Not to mention that the San Andreas is not positioned to cause a tsunami. “It’s both absurdly too large and it’s a wave rather than an increase in the level of the ocean,” Jones said of “San Andreas’s” wall of water. ![]() ![]() They appear more like a sudden and massive increase in sea level. Science: Tsunamis don’t look like traditional waves pumped up on steroids. “San Andreas”: The Golden Gate appears in danger of being washed away under a massive wave. “But you can’t have an earthquake in that situation.” It attaches to primal fears,” said the seismologist, who attended Tuesday’s “San Andreas” premiere in L.A. “People love this idea of earth opening up and swallowing something up. While there will be secondary cracks in the earth, images of gaping openings are the stuff of imagination, not fact, Jones said. Science: Quakes are caused by tectonic plate moving against each other, not pulling apart, says seismologist Lucy Jones of the U.S. “San Andreas”: A yawning fissure that appears to be about 30 feet wide rips apart the California countryside. Even that magnitude is unlikely, unless there is movement along the vast majority of the fault, which runs much of the length of the state. ![]() Science: Estimates suggest that a temblor on the San Andreas Fault in California would top out at a maximum of about 8.3, said USC’s Jordan. The second cinematic shaker would be bigger than the 9.5 Chilean quake of 1960 that is the biggest in the history of such measurements. “San Andreas”: Two quakes, one magnitude 9.1 and one a 9.6 on the Richter Scale, devastate the West. While there is plenty of room for concern about real quake-related threats, the experts said their look at the “San Andreas” trailers suggests that the film and science will diverge in several places (Warning: SPOILERS): “I hope people have fun at the movie and an intense thrill ride,” Flynn said, “and then look up what they should be doing and what could really happen in a quake.” To enhance the chance of the latter, the film’s hero, Johnson, has filmed public service announcements in which he delivers the “drop, cover and hold on” safety mantra. And he believes it will inspire many to prepare their homes and offices and to become more supportive of seismic research. “But it’s not a documentary, and I have always been very upfront about that.”įlynn said, importantly, that his film will show how people should “drop, cover and hold on” in the midst of a quake. Producer Beau Flynn talked to Jordan and other experts early in the making of “San Andreas.” “There are things they are going to say are embellished,” Flynn acknowledged. “As long as people don’t think of it as realistic portrayal of what happens in a quake, we are OK. “I am looking forward to seeing this, and I am expecting to have a good time,” said Tom Jordan, a USC professor and director of the Southern California Earthquake Center.
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