San Andreas Page #4

So the earthquake didn't diminish them.

Man.

This is not good.

Alexi, I want all the data from every monitoring

station still up along the fault line.

- And get it for me now.

- Right.

- What's going on?

- This is not over.

Sh*t.

Man. This thing's fried.

Come on. I need everybody.

- What are we doing?

- Getting you on the air. To warn people.

How? There's no way to upload a signal.

You're at Caltech.

Okay, who wants an "A" in independent

study? I'm starting a new class:

"How to Save Lives

by Hacking Media Outlets."

Hell, yeah, man. I'm in.

Sweet. Get your laptop. Let's go.

Right here. Move, move, move.

Here we go. Up. Lift.

Let's go! Over here.

It should be just up ahead.

There it is.

Okay, anything running on electricity

isn't gonna work...

...so we have to find

a rotary or a push-button phone.

How do you know all this?

My dad.

He works for L.A. Fire and Rescue.

Over here.

Great. I'll look for a landline.

I got one!

Blake?

Dad.

Dad. I got out. I'm okay.

Aah. She's okay.

Let me talk to her.

Blake?

Mom?

Thank God, honey.

Is Daniel okay?

He left me, Mom.

He what?

He told a security guard where I was...

...and then he just took off...

...and these two brothers that I met

overheard him and they came to help me.

I'm with them right now.

He left her?

We're coming to get you, honey.

Where are you?

I'm in an electronics store in Chinatown.

Honey, it's gonna be okay,

but I need you to listen to me.

Getting outta there is gonna be

a complete gridlock nightmare.

So get to higher ground. It's safer.

That's where I'm gonna

be able to see you.

Do you remember where we spent

Mallory's birthday weekend?

- At Coit Tower?

- Yeah. Yeah.

- That tall cement nozzle thing on the hill.

- Exactly.

Don't stop anywhere. Go there.

That's where we'll meet.

Stay strong, honey.

- We're coming to get you.

- Okay.

Wait, Mom.

How are you and Dad together?

We'll explain later. Okay, honey?

I love you.

I love you guys.

Bye.

Hi, you've reached Daniel. Please leave

me a message and I'll get back to you.

You left my daughter?

If you're not already dead,

I'm gonna f***ing kill you.

Thattagirl.

All right. We need to get going.

So how is your dad going to pick us up?

He's on his way in a helicopter.

That's so cool.

I need you to look up Coit Tower

on your map.

It's your turn.

Your parents will be worried sick.

Thank you.

Don't run.

Get in the street.

Where are we going?

- Stay away from the buildings.

- He wasn't there.

- Another aftershock!

- It's okay. It's all right.

Run! Run!

Get out of my way!

Hey! That was my spot!

You know, when you were

talking to Blake...

...that was the first time I heard you

say Mallory's name since we lost her.

Hey, did you know that Blake keeps

pictures from our San Francisco trip?

Yeah, in her memory box.

It's ironic.

Us heading back up there.

It was a fun trip.

- Where are we?

- Bakersfield.

Or what's left of it.

We're just about 90 minutes

from San Francisco.

Ray?

Did you just turn off the engine?

We got a gearbox failure.

Must've been that hit we took in L.A.

- I'm gonna have to autorotate down.

- Auto-what?

We're gonna crash.

- Right. Okay.

- Hold on.

Here we go.

Aah!

Hold on!

- My God!

- Almost there. Almost there.

We're just gonna set her down

right here.

Jesus!

My God!

We got fuel all over us.

We need to get outta here.

Get off me!

- Come on, we gotta go. Stay low. Stay low.

- Okay.

It's okay. We just gotta keep moving.

Just gotta keep moving.

- Give it to me.

- Stay here, man!

No, it's mine!

I got the last one here, Robin!

Come on, come on, come on, come on.

Get in, get in, get in, get in.

Looks like it's been stolen.

All right. Well, we'll steal it again.

Ray.

Easy.

Back it up! Come on!

I'll be needing that truck.

Not today.

My God.

The quake centered about 20

miles east of downtown Los Angeles.

Cell towers are down.

Most of the city's electricity, down.

Communication at a virtual standstill.

The devastation to Southern California

is expected to be massive.

In fact, the entire state will take a hit. We're

already getting reports of collapsed buildings...

We're in.

Yes!

...as far north

as San Francisco and the Bay Area.

There have been

at least five aftershocks ranging...

Okay. Here we go.

Producers are telling us we have

our first live feed from Los Angeles.

Serena Johnson is on the ground

at the seismology center at Caltech.

Hello, Chris.

I'm here with Dr. Lawrence Hayes, Executive

Director for Earthquake Studies at Caltech.

He and his research partner,

Dr. Kim Park...

...have come up with a model

that predicts earthquakes.

They knew L.A. was going to get hit.

But nobody listened to them.

It's time now to listen.

- Go ahead, doctor.

- Okay.

In seismology terms, what we're

experiencing is what we call a swarm event.

Basically, California's entire

tectonic plate has shifted.

The quake we experienced in Los Angeles

did damage all the way up in San Francisco.

Yeah, but the earthquake that they felt

was from movement along the fault line...

...in the Central Valley.

Their end of the fault line

has not moved yet.

More importantly, people need to know

that the shaking is not over.

And it's not aftershocks I'm talking about.

San Francisco will get hit again.

And it's going to be a bigger monster

this time.

Our models are predicting

a 9.5 or greater.

It will be so big that, even though

it's happening here in California...

...you will feel it on the East Coast.

Now, I cannot emphasize this enough

to the people of San Francisco:

You need to get out. And I mean now.

And, if you can't, you need to find

any means possible...

...to drop, cover and hold on.

Because your life is gonna depend on it.

God be with you.

Aftershocks continue to rock

the Los Angeles area.

You ever think about what our life

would be like if we hadn't lost Mallory?

- Em, don't.

- I do.

All the time.

We moved on.

No, we didn't move on.

We stopped moving.

You didn't lose her on your watch.

- No. But I lost her.

- Can we not talk about this?

You owe it to me.

This! This is the most

I've gotten out of you since she died.

I need to know, Ray.

Was it me?

What did I do?

- I never blamed you.

- I don't wanna talk about it.

It doesn't matter.

She's gone. Now you're gone...

What's the point?

I guess the point is...

...this is why I didn't stick around.

Hey! Hey!

- Look out! Watch out! You have to stop!

- Hey! Slow down! Hey!

- Ray!

- Aah!

What is this?

The San Andreas fault.

I told you

we should've gone the other way.

Because you knew

this was gonna happen?

You!

- We owe you guys a huge thanks.

- Really.

No need.

We nearly made

the same mistake ourselves...

...but busted an axle

when we went off the road.

Thank goodness my eyes

are better than his.

Heh. Do you know

if there's any way around this?

Well...

...the 198 might not be out.

- Through the pass.

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