The Big One will be a great earthquake. An earthquake is the shaking of the ground cause by seismic waves. Almost all earthquakes occur when pent up stress in rocks along large, active faults (like the SAF) is suddenly released as the rock breaks.he Big One will be a great earthquake. An earthquake is the shaking of the ground cause by seismic waves. Almost all earthquakes occur when pent up stress in rocks along large, active faults (like the SAF) is suddenly released as the rock breaks.
  Magnetism is the force generated by any moving charged particle or charged particles. A magnetic field is the result of the motion of a charged particle or charged particles, and this field is generated in no other way. Any time a charged particle moves, it creates a magnetic field around its path of travel.
Heating a material above its Curie temperature will destroy its permanent magnetic properties, yes. The magnetic dipole moment of a metal is what makes it magnetic. Above a material's Curie temp, those moments get scrambled and they don't align in the same way once it is cooled.