The South American coastline has been prime earthquake country forever. I’m fluent in Spanish and was thinking rather vaguely of relocating to Chile if things get too excessively Democrat here ... but the earthquake incidence is outrageous.
That is the longest tectonic subduction zone with the greatest potential for catastrophic earthquakes if I’m not mistaken.
Heh. When I took a German Literature course as an undergraduate, freshman year, I think, we read Erdbeben in Chili by Heinrich Von Kleist. It’s an outrageously downbeat and tragic story, about which I remember nothing, but I just looked it up. The one thing I do remember is that it clued me in to Chilean earthquakes.