A fascinating, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation that invites us to reflect on the vulnerability of modern societies to natural disasters.

The San Andreas Fault, which runs north to south through the state of California, is one of the most studied faults on the planet and the most feared in the United States. But a little further north lies another fault, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, much less known but capable of causing even more devastating earthquakes.

The Great Quake is a report that caused a huge stir when it was published in The New Yorker in 2015 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Schulz transforms the story of the discovery of this fault and its destructive potential into a gripping investigation that invites us to reflect on the vulnerability of modern societies to natural disasters.