71 was a great quake. That shook us up real good and most don’t know of it.
I was a young dinosaur at the time.
I was growing up in North Orange County then, now I’m in South OC. I’ve always felt that I’m far enough away from the San Andreas fault that even a really major quake should not be too disastrous for me personally. Stud frame houses, absent any liquification of the ground they stand on, tend to ride out temblors pretty good. Now if I’m unlucky enough to be in downtown LA when the Big One hits....