[crz]

After a quake and if a person lives in places like Seattle the saying should go.

Leave quik, Go high, Stay long, Return late.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

...or in the case of a major population center, I’d avoid return altogether.

Twenty years ago, I’d not have said this, but the general population (particularly in places like LA, SanFran or Seattle) is so dependent and at the same time so selfish/self-centered....I’m concerned that if a major disaster occurred in one of those places, the physical damage and deaths due to the event would be a tiny fraction of the death and damage caused by the panic and gross criminality of the “survivors”.

It wouldn’t even rise to the level of Medieval.

[Ozark Tom]

No steel in buildings for earthquake survival. The whole Cascadia affected zone has been under a false impression that the region was never subject to earthquakes based on hundreds of years with no shakes. Only recently the evidence was discovered showing the fault builds stress for centuries without any small quakes, then goes all out.