If today's earthquake has you wondering what more you can do to be ready for the next one, you might want to listen to 'The Big One' podcast by our friends over at KPCC
KPCC's"Big One" podcast host Jacob Margolis, producer Misha Euceph and head of podcasting Arwen Nicks assemble in the public radio station's Pasadena studio.
“The last time one struck, there was no Union Station, no Hollywood, no freeways to destroy or skyscrapers to crumble, no fifth-largest economy in the world to cripple,” Jacob Margolis warns gently in the KPCC podcast ““We don’t know when the Big One’s gonna hit,” Margolis says. “It could be in a year, it could be a week, or literally any minute now. But we do know that when it does, you’ll have an overwhelming feeling that Mother Nature doesn’t care. That you’re small.
The three speak soothingly, in dulcet public-radio tones, about the inevitable destruction of the city. They cite offhand the U.S. Geological Survey’s ShakeOut report, from 2008, which predicts that a Big One’s impact on Los Angeles would be, generously, an estimated 1,800 dead, 50,000 injured, and $200 billion in damage.
To give an idea of how that fits together, the “Big One” crew is just as keen to discuss the career of, a real-life superhero in the earthquake community who served as a consultant on the show, as they are to discuss the merits of various earthquake-movie protagonists . “I mean, I’ve got an oil painting of Bruce Willis as John McClane on my desk,” Nicks says with a laugh.It was Euceph, Nicks says, who predominantly sculpted the sound of the show, who found the best way to merge those worlds.
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