'It could happen tomorrow': Experts know disaster upon disaster looms for West Coast

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'It could happen tomorrow': Experts know disaster upon disaster looms for West Coast
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Scientists say a massive quake could strike the San Francisco Bay Area at any moment. And when it does, the city can expect to be slammed with a force equal to hundreds of atomic bombs.

“The SPARS Pandemic” imagined a future where a deadly novel coronavirus spread around the world, often without symptoms, as disinformation and vaccine hesitancy constantly confounded experts’ efforts to keep people safe.

At the time that SPARS was written, a global pandemic was thought of in much the same way experts currently describe the HayWired earthquake: an imminent catastrophe that could arrive at any time.Disaster scenario researchers each have their own way of describing how likely the apocalyptic futures they foresee are.

Earthquakes occurring along major faults are a certainty, but scientists can't predict exactly when earthquakes will happen – the underground forces that create them are too random and chaotic. But researchers know a lot about what will happen once the earth begins to shake.“We don’t know when,” Porter said. But"it will happen."Every year, there are about 500,000 earthquakes - 100,000 of which can be felt on the Earth's surface. But how do earthquakes work? We explain.

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