A reporter asks a scientist when we will be able to make valid earthquake predictions. The scientist predicts ten years. Moving shot from a helicopter, of the San Andreas fault line in an area that is all sand and brush covered hills. Shots of a meeting of the California Seismic Safety Commission, that discusses earthquake predictions. A seismologist being interviewed predicts the next large earthquake to be in Los Angeles. Shots of seismographs. The seismologist discusses how most of the damage to San Francisco in 1906 was from the fire and not the earthquake. Still photos of the fire after the 1906 earthquake.