Well, I’d hope that at least their building coes don’t allow brick construction - the collapse of those bick buildings during Loma Prieta and Northridge were very dangerous.
— me, up in the SF area.
Um, the midwest, being full of clay, was a major manufacturing center of brick for a very long time. There are whole neighborhoods here built on the fill in the clay pits. There's more brick than any other building material in my hometown. We're in for it and we know it since the New Madrid fault really shook (1811 or 1812) the course of the Mississippi changed, it ran backwards for an hour and rang church bells in Virginia. Even the Arch was built with earthquakes in mind. We just don't let it bother us and keep the buildings short.