Huge Drill

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Millions of people in southern California are expected to drop to the ground, huddle under a table and a hold on for about one minute Thursday in what is expected to be the largest earthquake drill in history.

The drill is part of the weeklong Great Southern California ShakeOut, a series of events organized by scientists and emergency officials that aims to prepare people for a major earthquake, something scientists and researchers believe is overdue in the area.

Thursday’s drill is based on a scenario of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurring along the southern San Andreas Fault, beginning at the Salton Sea and rupturing northward nearly 200 miles. Such an event could kill 1,800 people, injure 50,000, and cause $200 billion in damage, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which led a team of more than 300 experts in devising the scenario.

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