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Earthquake Advisory [1]

Fiction [2]
10.5.16

Last week, after a swarm of almost one hundred small earthquakes in the Salton Sea region, California’s Office of Emergency Services issued an earthquake advisory [3] to Southern California residents warning of the potential of a larger earthquake occurring on the San Andreas fault. Write a short story in which the main plotline’s background includes the looming threat of a major earthquake. How does this create tension in the atmosphere and bring out different personality traits in each character?


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/earthquake_advisory [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [3] http://www.oesnews.com/governors-director-emergency-services-reminds-californians-prepared-earthquakes