Whoa. The earthquake risk in Seattle is far bigger than it is in San Francisco. Another example of selective blindness to risk that characterizes our society. We worry about the wrong things at every level https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one …
Moreover, the USGS puts the earthquake risk in both regions as roughly the same. The problem in Seattle is the "Big One" when it eventually comes is much bigger, not that the region is at higher risk than our own shaky city. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/hazards/hazmaps/conterminous/2014/images/HazardMap2014_lg.jpg …