Listening to the San Andreas: one hundred years ago, San Francisco crumbled. Peter Fish discovers what today's scientists are learning about the big quakes to come.(WINDOW ON THE WEST)

From: Sunset | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Take a flight between Los Angeles and San Francisco and you see it about the time you finish your peanuts. Below you, running across central California, a scar as vivid as any caught on a plastic-surgery show like Dr. 90210 or Extreme Makeover. The San Andreas Fault.

One hundred years ago this month, the San Andreas changed history. The earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area at 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, shattered cities, helped create modern earthquake science, and established the image of California as a Marilyn Monroe--like place where seductive beauty joins ...

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