>California's the state I don't get, from that standpoint. Sure, San
>Francisco's got a great climate, but it's on a whacking huge
>faultline. And LA? It's on a whacking huge faultline in the
>middle of a desert.

To be fair, the whacking huge faultline is 60 to 100 miles east of LA. A big San Andreas quake down here wouldn't be too terrible by the time it got to LA unless it was stupidly huge. There was a mid 7 quake out near Palmdale a few years ago, all I got by the beach was 30 seconds of being reminded what crossing the English Channel in June was like (I wasn't really freaked until after, cause it faded out so smoothly I wasn't sure exactly when it stopped, and spent the next few hours wondering if everything was still moving).

Not that the ground under LA isn't a spiderweb of minor faultlines, but still. :)

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Chad Collier
Digital Bitch
J. Random VFX Company