Next year residents of Los Angeles will flock to cinemas to see a blockbuster called San Andreas in which their city will be wiped out by an apocalyptic earthquake.Kylie Minogue and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, one of Hollywood's current most bankable stars, will be seen roaming the wreckage after the City of Angels is mercilessly flattened by the "Big One".
The southern section of the San Andreas fault that runs near the city has not had a "mega-quake" of more than magnitude-7.5 since 1680 and it is, according to seismologists, more than a century overdue.
A flurry of lesser earthquakes in recent months has refocused attention on whether America's second city can withstand a major hit.
Source: Nick Allen