With nearly 6,300 of them this year along, varying between barely noticeable to grab-that-lamp-or-we’ll-be-buying-a-new-one, seismic activity is almost a constant in the sunshine state. “Residents were growing things that you smoke, and people just loitered around public spaces.”Ĭalifornia is notorious for its earthquakes. From the rugged, treeless deserts of Southern California where much of the fault is visible, to the rocky, Mediterranean terrain with shifting winds and dry, coastal conditions, Wang’s images expose the quiet vapidity in these crime-ridden regions.
The trappings of the inland California towns struck him as surprisingly prosaic, Wang says.
You might want to be a little bit concerned about that.’” If an earthquake hits, it could divide your front porch in half. “I kept wanting to tell them, ‘your house is directly on one of the largest fault lines in the world. “He had no idea what I was talking about,” he says. He asked another resident about the fault line, who pointed to the San Andreas Lake. He said ‘God sent me here and he will take me back when it´s time. There is actually few things he thinks less of than earthquakes. “For most, everyday life has more challenges and potential threats, like Vibhu Batta from India who works in a liquor store in Desert Hot Springs,” Wang says. Many were unaware of their precarious position on the fault line and even fewer were worried about it. Most surprising was their nonchalance, Wang says. “Many of the subjects I approached were closed off and there was a strong feeling of suspicion and unease,” he says. However, Moment photographer Knut Egil Wang wanted to go beyond the green screen to get a more realistic look at the landscape and lives of millions of Californians living on this infamous landmark.Īfter a year-long sequence of trips along the fault line-from Bombay Beach in Southern California to Shelter Cove in Northern California-Wang discovered a people who, though perhaps less theatrical, are no less enigmatic. The film was a great success, premiering on 3,777 screens across the country and spurring a flurry of conversation surrounding this dramatized apocalyptic disaster.
The movie was the latest in a growing assortment of Hollywood cliffhangers that feed into the country’s fascination with the San Andreas Fault, which stretches across 800 miles of California and is predicted to elicit a massive earthquake that will have ripple effects of copycat quakes across the state. The entire state of California was literally ripped apart, with chunks of the Western Coastline crashing into the ocean after a staggering 9.1 earthquake hit the region. This year’s hottest Hollywood hit played out like any typical disaster thriller.
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