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Dec 5, 2024 | laist.com | Johanna Varner |Olivia Allen-Price

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Dec 5, 2024 | laist.com | Johanna Varner |Olivia Allen-Price

In light of the tsnuami warning issued Thursday following a 7.0 magnitude quake in Northern California, which ultimately was canceled, we're resurfacing a 2017 story from our friends at partner newsroom KQED in San Francisco. Enjoy? In 2015, Steven Horowitz was watching one of the summer’s big blockbuster action flicks, San Andreas. In the movie, the San Andreas fault shifts, triggering a magnitude 9.6 earthquake in San Francisco.