I've been in quite a few 5-6, and three over 7.0. (Just ONE of the reasons I left Southern California!)
A 6 is nothing to be afraid of if you are in a modern building that is up to code.
That said, 6.0 quakes have killed 100,000+ in both China & Turkey. By contrast, the "Great Quake of '94" in LA killed fewer than 70, 63 of these unfortunates were in one under-code apartment building.
6.0's cost lotsa $$$, but rarely kill people in the USA.
Yeah too bad for the conservatives in California but if the earthquake split off all of the liberal cities like San Francisco and let them float free in the Pacific I wouldn't complain.
Yeah too bad for the conservatives in California but if the earthquake split off all of the liberal cities like San Francisco and let them float free in the Pacific I wouldn't complain.
Sadly, the Pacific plate is moving northeast. San Francisco is on the North American plate though, so its *possible* that the Pacific plate could jump up & bury it...