The USGS (US Geological Survey) has produced these earthquake scenarios based on what's most likely in their models, for planning purposes.
Their scenarios catalog is here (there are lots of them, some more detailed than others)
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/scenarios/
Here's an Mag 8.0 along the northern San Andreas fault. It would either flat out kill me or render me homeless. Very intense shaking from southern Humboldt county all the way south to Salinas, more than 200 miles! The strongest shaking is along a narrow band near the fault, but I live less than 5 miles east of the San Andreas, so I'd be toast:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/scenarios/ev.../executive
Here's a Mag 7.1 along the Hayward fault. (It might not be quite so bad where I live, but it's questionable whether my old house could take it.) More localized and worst on east side of SF bay.:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/scenarios/ev.../executive
8.0 along the southern San Andreas (centered near San Bernardino, so LA might dodge a bullet)
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/scenarios/ev.../executive
Perhaps the worst for LA would be a 7.2 along the Newport-Inglewood fault, because it goes right under LA.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/scenarios/ev.../executive
And for MR's (and Seattle's) viewing pleasure, here's a Mag 9.4 along the Cascadia thrust fault that would generate a huge tsunami and wipe out all the coastal towns from BC to northern California. Their scenario has it centered in the ocean west of Portland. But it would be so widespread it would be devastating all along Vancouver Island and would even be felt (rather weakly) here in the SF bay area. Its tsunami might be a bigger danger than the ground shaking down here. The tsunami might even cross the Pacific and strike Hawaii and even Asia. One wonders what a tsunami would do as it's forced up the Columbia river and into the Juan de Fuca strait and south into Puget Sound and north up to Vancouver.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/scenarios/ev.../executive
Their scenarios catalog is here (there are lots of them, some more detailed than others)
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/scenarios/
Here's an Mag 8.0 along the northern San Andreas fault. It would either flat out kill me or render me homeless. Very intense shaking from southern Humboldt county all the way south to Salinas, more than 200 miles! The strongest shaking is along a narrow band near the fault, but I live less than 5 miles east of the San Andreas, so I'd be toast:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/scenarios/ev.../executive
Here's a Mag 7.1 along the Hayward fault. (It might not be quite so bad where I live, but it's questionable whether my old house could take it.) More localized and worst on east side of SF bay.:
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/scenarios/ev.../executive
8.0 along the southern San Andreas (centered near San Bernardino, so LA might dodge a bullet)
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/scenarios/ev.../executive
Perhaps the worst for LA would be a 7.2 along the Newport-Inglewood fault, because it goes right under LA.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/scenarios/ev.../executive
And for MR's (and Seattle's) viewing pleasure, here's a Mag 9.4 along the Cascadia thrust fault that would generate a huge tsunami and wipe out all the coastal towns from BC to northern California. Their scenario has it centered in the ocean west of Portland. But it would be so widespread it would be devastating all along Vancouver Island and would even be felt (rather weakly) here in the SF bay area. Its tsunami might be a bigger danger than the ground shaking down here. The tsunami might even cross the Pacific and strike Hawaii and even Asia. One wonders what a tsunami would do as it's forced up the Columbia river and into the Juan de Fuca strait and south into Puget Sound and north up to Vancouver.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/scenarios/ev.../executive