Recently, I rewatched San Andreas (2015, Warner Bros. Pictures),
the disaster movie starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Alexandra Daddario (who more recently appeared in 2023’s Mayfair Witches). And it got me wondering: how much of that enormous “mega-quake” is actually rooted in real science?
Sure, movies like this are obviously made for entertainment,
but it’s still fascinating to imagine an event that could happen in some form.
In San Andreas, the quake reaches an insane magnitude of 9.6, which is astronomically high. According to the USGS...