Pure coincidence.

They can see connections we can't.

cause gawd to wreak all sorts of havoc everyplace else while the San Andreas fault bides its time.

I've always wanted to ask one of those pompadoured gasbags why his aim is so poor.

There is NO such thing as "earthquake weather".

lack a sense of humor.

Even the turbulent waters from a major hurricane are trivial when it comes to the huge forces needed to shift the earth's plates. There are often large quakes along that fault line, particularly in Chile.

make an incredible difference, many of them developed through the experiences of our Pacific coastal neighbors. Hopefully, the areas hardest hit have been most developed since the mid 1980s.

I remember going to appraise a home in a California subdivision set between two constructed less than a decade later. Life as usual in the flanking neighborhoods. In the slightly older one, many devastated red- and yellow-flagged homes, FEMA vans serving few by then as most there had evacuated.

I didn't bother climbing the tall chain-link fence erected once I discovered the home I was sent to check out had been red-flagged and from the front I could see the back yard where two parts of the home had simply broken apart. But I checked the back yard from one side. Despite backing to a beautiful wild sand wash (raising questions of soil stability), the pool surround had no cracks that I could see and the pool was full. It was all in the construction of the home itself, to slightly earlier codes.