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Yes we have the San Andreas fault, but florida? hurricanes um hello? Hurricanes happen in Florida every year. Major earthquakes don't hit SoCal every year.
You can't prepare for a earth quake. You can for a hurricane..
arizona nevada and new mexico are dangerous to your health , all the nuclear bombs tested by the usa were tested in these three states , that whole area has so much radiation , thats why its so cheap to buy homes there
You can't prepare for a earth quake. You can for a hurricane..
And yet hurricanes kills far more people and cause significantly more damage on a yearly basis. Katrina alone killed more Americans than all of California's earthquakes over the past century
Most earthquake-related deaths are from old/neglected buildings collapsing, hence why larger death tolls are observed in places like Mexico or Haiti. California's building codes (can't speak to the PNW or Alaska) are among the most stringent worldwide. When a major earthquake inevitably hits California again there will certainly be casualties, but if you live in a newer/recently renovated building your chances of dying are next to zero.
That's not to say California is the safest of the aforementioned states, it isn't. But the notion that earthquakes are as dangerous as hurricanes is misleading. The exception is the Cascadia subduction zone near the PNW; it's pretty much guaranteed a lot of people will die when it goes off. (Mostly from the resulting tsunami, the earthquake itself won't kill nearly as many people.)
None of these are guaranteed safe from natural disasters. All get one or more of earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, floods, or something else. Pick what you can live with best.
Also, some of these states get a good bit of rain (Florida and parts of Hawaii, for two).
Might also want to consider whether you like humid or dry heat when factoring things in.
Fruita, CO area (estimated, near Grand Junction) is the #1 winner. None of the northern states area qualify due to heavier snowstorm risk. Fresno, CA is nowhere close due to earthquakes.
You can't prepare for a earth quake. You can for a hurricane..
You definitely can prepare for an earthquake, you just don't know when it will come. You can get your home seismic retrofitted to bring it up to current code (a lot of people do this, especially things like bolting the foundation). You can latch heavy furniture down to the wall so it doesn't fall during an earthquake, and don't keep heavy things sitting on the mantle. And then the regular disaster planning that a lot of people do last minute for hurricane, you do a little earlier. Everyone in my family has a supply of canned food and bottled water either in their garage or in a storage shed.
I was thinking the same. Between hurricanes, floods, sinkholes (our soil and having a massive water reserve under us doesn't help much,) and heck, add to that daily summer monsoons, yeah, it's quite safe from natural disasters.
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