• What is the most earthquake safe neighborhood in the Greater Los Angeles Area? This place would combine safe distance from faultlines with non-liquefying ground and up-to-date home construction. Of lesser importance would be good civic emergency response, as well as likelihood of getting water and power up fastest. I would also like to know what other factors would contribute to making it through a major, "Big One" catastrope, including whether being in an apartment building or a house is safer.


  • Hello madog-ga, The California Geological Survey offers some wonderful interactive maps that will help you explore the seismicity of the greater Los Angeles area. The Interactive Quadrangle Map helps you choose the area of Los Angeles that you want to explore. You will have to use other sources for getting the correlated information for civic emergency response and likelihood of recovery from power and water outages. There are so many variables involved that you need to do the preliminary explorations on your own. You might want to post a new question once you've identified a target community and gather the additional information just for that city. All the best. ~ czh ~ http://gmw.consrv.ca.gov/shmp/index.htm California Department of Conservation California Geological Survey http://gmw.consrv.ca.gov/shmp/MapProcessor.asp?Action=Quad&Location=SoCal Seismic Hazard Mapping Southern California Interactive Quadrangle Map -- Liquefaction Zones -- Landslide Zones -- Boreholes -- Highways -- Cities


  • Since I'm just a commentator (and they aren't accepting applications for new people), I usually comment on a topic that I find of interest or know something about. Living in Los Angeles about 95% of my life, I've felt them everywhere. However, I know you want some scientific data on the matter, so these 2 pages caught interest. http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/states/california/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault


  • I am not asking which areas won't feel an earthquake (I know they all will), but which areas a person would be most likely to survive the earthquake safely and with comparably less disruption.


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