[sammyg2]

Lets keep things in perspective. Hurricanes happen all the time. several a year, and most of em do serious damage if we can believe the exaggerating news media.
We get earthquakes every day but most of em are so small no one notices. Once in a while we get one that we can feel. Maybe one every 5 to 10 years. Big deal.
Chances are only a few older houses will get cracks in the plaster or something will fall of a shelf. Get the broom and get over it.

Occasionally we get a big one like northridge and there is significant isolated damage. I felt that one in OC but nothing broke. I was thankful I didn't live closer to it.

I've lived here since 1973 and the northridge quake was the biggest I've felt. Again, nothing happened to me or my house, and that same thing goes for most of the people in So Cal.
Some people got it bad but most didn't get it at all. Yes it was big, but it did less damage that a big hurricane and a quake like that doesn't happen very often at all. Maybe once or twice in a lifetime.

We get a really big one about every 100 to 250 years or so. Chances are most of us will never experience that, knock on wood. When that happens we are screwed and we know it.