

Kate Scharer, a geologist from the Earthquake Science Center at the U.S.

But as is typical of Hollywood event movies, San Andreas goes to extremes, imagining scenarios and calamities that don’t reflect the geological science of the actual fault.

San Andreas also envisions what many Californians have feared for decades: “The Big One,” a giant earthquake along the San Andreas fault that would cause massive damage and destruction to the region. This season’s first major disaster picture, San Andreas, promises all that we’ve come to expect from the genre: crashing high-rises, massive tidal waves, panicky scientific experts, and The Rock coming to the rescue on a gravity-defying helicopter. There’s no better time to experience epic catastrophes on the big screen than summertime.
