Quake Along Entire San Andreas Fault Could Cause $290 Billion In Residential Damage

Until recently, the expectation for California's longest known fault, the San Andreas, was that one part of it would go, in either Northern or Southern California.

But in 2014, the government published a study indicating that it's possible — though not likely — that the entire 800-mile fault could go all at once.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks with Maiclaire Bolton, a seismologist and senior product manager at the real estate analytics firm CoreLogic, about what kind of destruction such a quake could cause, and what it could cost to rebuild.