Catastrophic quakes kill tens of thousands in most places in the world... and we fret over hundreds...
2010 Haiti 7.0 Quake killed 100,000 (1% of the entire nation... which would be 3 million in the US)
2008 Sichuan 8.0 Quake killed 69,000...
2005 Pakistan 7.6 Quake killed 86,000...
2017 saw 7 quakes over 7.0 magnitude, 2016 saw 17 of them.
“and we fret over hundreds... “
What’s your point? Seems we have more compassion and intelligence to build things that don’t kill people.
Yep.
But a really big one in the LA area could easily lead to a million or many more refugees. The government-dependent bad characters would scatter to states with the best welfare or to those with the best criminal opportunities.