The thing I thank God for, is that LA has super strict building codes. it’s expensive to build here as a result ... and long delays for inspections.
Granted, everything has a limit.
The biggest quake I have ever felt here in Toronto wouldn’t even make Californians blink. It was at around 5am in my bed. For some reason I had been awake. A little shaking that lasted about 10 to 20 seconds. I flipped on my clock radio and the announcer said we are getting calls we had an earthquake so that confirmed to me what I had felt. I think it was a 3 something centered in upstate New York. The Adirondacks maybe. Many years ago now. Not many people are aware but there is some fault line at the bottom of Lake Ontario.