Bronze sculpture of a hypothetical magnitude 7 earthquake along the Hayward fault in the Bay Area. The data for this sculpture is from the USGS’s HayWired Scenario, which predicts what a large earthquake might do to the Bay Area.
The height of the sculpture represents the shake intensity at that point, reminding us how fragile our stability really is.
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