Article ADPF How scientifically accurate is San Andreas? Rock solid or a bit faulty?

How scientifically accurate is San Andreas? Rock solid or a bit faulty?

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Tiziana Rossetto
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Dwayne Johnson's disaster drama might have other films quaking in their boots at the box office, but there are seismic cracks in its geological accuracy, writes a professor of earthquake engineering

First of all, San Andreas is a fun film. It's interesting. But it has a bit of a fatalistic scenario of destruction - one we hope will never actually happen - and the film makes several scientific errors.

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