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San Andreas: A Movie Q & A
Q1: Dr. Lawrence Hayes replied to his student that California supposed to get an earthquake every 150 years (San Andreas 00:11:07).
Q2: The Caltech seismologists are measuring the magnetic pulse rate at the Hoover Dam in Nevada, which may predict earthquakes (00:12:28).
Q3: The first measured magnitude of the earthquake at Hoover Dam was 2.2, which quickly developed into a major earthquake measuring 7.1 (00:16:10).
Q4: The geographic feature that Dr. Hayes of Caltech used to connect Nevada to California, and which he called “natural deformation” was the leading edge of the marked “plate boundary fault” (of the Garlock Fault) (00:27:30).
Q5: Seismologist Dr. Hayes of Caltech instructed the female reporter to hide under the table while the first earthquake hit California (00:32:18). The magnitude of the earthquake was 9.5 jumping from 6.5 (00:32:30).
Q6: The types of phones that work when electricity is out are either rotary or push button phones that are connected to a landline (00:52:11).
Q7: During the live newscast wherein Dr. Hayes of Caltech was interviewed by the female reporter, the approximate magnitude of the earthquake he predicted to hit San Francisco is “9.5 or greater” (01:01:07). He told the people of San Francisco to get out of the city “now” and, if they cannot, to find “any means possible to drop cover” and hold onto it to save their lives (01:01:31).
Q8: Daughter Blake Gaines is scavenging a handheld, portable, two-way, radio transceiver from the fire truck supply box because she wants to access the tactical channel that first responders in San Francisco use to communicate. She wants to use it to monitor the developments associated with the earthquake (“what was going on”) (01:18:36).
Q9: LAFD Chief Ray Gaines (the father) learned from “a news story” that the stadium area is safe from the earthquake, which hit San Francisco (01:18:36).
Q10: Dr. Hayes of Caltech announced to his team that the magnitude of the earthquake that hit San Francisco was 9.6 (01:21:03).
Q11: Chief Gaines gets out of the bay when he realizes a tsunami is about to hit the Bay Area (01:22:13). The plan was to race to get over the tsunami wave before it crests (01:23:23).
Q12: There was only one branch (agency) of the U.S. government, which was mobilized at the end to provide relief to the survivors. This government agency was the National Guard (01:44:46). The other two responders (FEMED and the UN relief team) are non-American agencies.
Works Cited
San Andreas. Dir. Brad Peyton. Warner Bros., 2015. Blu-ray.
