Big One could leave 250,000+ quake refugees in Calif.
People walk toward the Ferry Building on Market Street after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Photo/Library of Congress
By Rong-Gong Lin II and Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times
When a catastrophic earthquake hits California, buildings will topple and potentially hundreds could be killed.
But what gets less attention is the wrenching aftermath of such a huge temblor, which could leave whole neighborhoods torched by fires uninhabitable and hundreds of thousands of people without a home.
Officials are grappling with where all these quake refugees would go.