There are two kinds of people who don’t hang pictures on their walls: minimalists, and people who live directly above a fault line.
Alex Cully is the latter. From 2016 to 2017, Cully rented an apartment in the Hayward Hills, near Garin Regional Park, that was directly on the Hayward Fault. Because two continental plates were having a shoving fight beneath the floorboards, Cully had started to forgo the normal interior decor.
“I never put up photos on the walls, and kept everything fragile either in a box or somewhere that falling wouldn’t break them,” Cully said in an email…