06-01-2013, 09:17 PM
Plus a lot of the San Andreas fault is frigging gorgeous every other part of the time. California is some of the most naturally spectacular land around, and they don't let a couple occasional earthquakes ruin that. To be honest, the building codes are so strict and quake-resistant, the death tolls from the worst California quakes are in the tens and twenties, when other countries like Mexico etc can suffer losses in the hundreds and thousands.