.and a 6.1 San Francisco way -
God shaking the Ring of Fire?
(Never could understand why people would continue living in San Francisco - betting the fault will never do it's thing again...just because they're there?)
On the other hand - the places of the worst discord in the country seem to be vulnerable to disaster - maybe God is hedging His bets? Earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunami
copy paste - NYC - Eastern seaboard could be wiped out
(http://armageddononline.tripod.com/tsunamis.htm
I always wondered how the extreme earthquake hazard and some of the most expensive real estate on the west coast went together...
Every place has it's good and bad features. Right now, the main bad feature is the governance by liberal idiots. That being said, earthquakes are the least of one's worries. Most are mild and cause little or no damage. The big ones are rare and might not affect one at all in their lifetime. One of my daughter's in-laws built their house on a rise in Kansas, they got the land cheaply because a tornado wiped out the previous home - twice. Why would one want to live in a place like that? My daughter's home in Texas had over 100 degree weather every day for much of the summer last year. Why would one want to live like that?
Anyway, two things SF has going for it are jobs and weather. Weather is mild, you can travel a short bit and find high temps or snow; meanwhile you work in mild 70 degree temps. Everything you need is nearby without having to drive a hundred miles. Very little crime, few poor ghettos. Now if only we could expel the liberal invaders who took over running the politics (SF was a former republican city for most of the 20th century).