What if LA were hit with an earthquake?

People are suddenly becoming worried that LA could suffer a disastrous natural disaster that would be as bad, or worse, than Katrina.

Major quake could be worse than Katrina

As many as 18,000 people dead. More than $250 billion in damages. Hundreds of thousands of people left homeless. That's not the latest estimate of Hurricane Katrina's toll on the Gulf Coast. That's a worst-case scenario if a major earthquake were to hit Los Angeles.

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California has been hit by significant quakes about every 15 years over the past century. Experts say there's a better-than 60 percent chance that a quake with a magnitude around 6.7 will hit Southern California or the Bay Area within decades.