this was taken from an article on yahoo. doesn't it seem like a perfect movie set-up...thousands of earthquake gurus meeting in the earthquake hotbed of the U.S. on the 100th anniversary of the "big one." you're just asking for a movie disaster.
The study, "When the Big One Strikes Again," was released the day before the 100th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It was prepared for what is being billed as the biggest earthquake conference ever.
The three-day 100th Anniversary Earthquake Conference, starting Tuesday in San Francisco, was expected to draw more than 2,500 scientists, engineers, government officials and emergency response professionals. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (news, bio, voting record) and other politicians were scheduled to speak.
The conference is one of a long list of events being held around the Bay Area to commemorate the 1906 quake and promote earthquake preparedness. On Tuesday, survivors will lay wreaths at Lotta's Fountain in downtown San Francisco to mark the moment the temblor struck shortly after 5 a.m. 100 years ago.
The latest report, prepared by the engineering firm Charles Kircher & Associates in Mountain View, was commissioned by the earthquake conference's organizers: the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Seismological Society of America and California Governor's Office of Emergency Services.
Using computer models, the study estimated how a 1906-size earthquake would impact today's nine-county San Francisco Bay area, where the population has mushroomed to more than 7 million people.
The report found that a 7.9-magnitude quake would cause up to $34 billion in building-related losses in San Francisco, $28 billion in Santa Clara County, $26 billion in San Mateo County and $15 billion in Alameda County.
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