No, this isn’t about the culture wars. It really is a Hollywood Fault, that may prevent Garcetti’s gang of cronies from blotting out the sun of Hollywood and West Hollywood residents.
It’s interesting to note that the Red Line subway runs along it, down Hollywood Boulevard. That line was built a couple decades ago, and it’s not clear that they knew they were building it along a rupture fault. From the map, though, it appears to run a block or two south of it, so even if it did go, it wouldn’t necessarily break the tunnel. But it could leave a crack so deep that you could see all the way down to where the people who run Hollywood live.
Here’s a link to an interesting photo of train tracks in a tunnel after an earthquake.
http://www.scec.org/education/020721kern.html
Note how the track is continuous, but it disappears under the tunnel wall. Tehachapi was pretty well trashed in 1952.
That’s crazy. Thanks for the link.