It is hilarious when the CA lefties talk about “sustainable development”.
Most of the larger cities are on earthquake fault lines!
You can’t get less “sustainable” than that.
Not only that, a few are built near volcanoes.
Naples Italy for one.
As far as Earthquakes go, the whole dang island of Japan.
They found out during the 2011 quake that the skyscrapers not only swayed, they quivered. I have seen discussion from engineers that said those buildings had only a few more minutes and they would have started coming apart.
You ought to see the videos of them. They when high speed on the videos and when I saw that I went HOLY COW!