<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=105331.msg5126907#msg5126907">Quote from: TheHangedMan on 28-08-2011, 07:05:28</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">What about those darn quakes, though?  :-\<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Spoken like a true Easterner.  We aren't near/on a major fault.  We have little quakes pretty regular due to the geothermal activity.  I grew up in the Bay Area (San Jose) and never had anything damaged by a quake.  My sister who lived in the Santa Cruz mountains got to ride out the Loma Prieta quake and that was pretty scary, but no damage to her house.  All the chimneys in the neighborhood fell down, though.  Can't have chimneys there, now.  Honestly, in the mountains, the rain and mudslides are more frightening.  They get 50+ inches per year and at least one person dies when a Redwood sails down the hill to land on their house each year.  And, where I live now, you have to be concerned about local government more than any sort of natural disaster.