How many earthquakes would people usually experience living in California, yearly?

Question

Is it a very common thing that really doesn't faze people that live there?

I know this isn't the right category but I couldn't find one.

Answer 1

By considering only the historical record back to 1903 (which they believe is complete) plus the relatively well-known rate of occurrence of "big ones" on the San Andreas fault, they argue that the annual earthquake rate in southern California is keeping up with plate tectonics within the limits of uncertainty in the data. This means that seismicity in the future should not look much different from that of the past 100 years, or about one M6+ event every 3 years somewhere in southern California, one M7+ event about every 30 years, and a M7.5 to M7.9 event on the southern San Andreas about once every century or two (the last one was in 1857).

Answer 2

LOL!!! I live near the San Andreas Fault, the Hayward Fault, and even another major earthquake fault that I can't remember the name of, and I've never been in an earthquake!

I've been here 4 years, and there's been no earthquakes. It's just that California is a liberal state, and the people and government are more concerned with preparing for disasters than conservative places like Florida, Louisiana and Texas where real disasters take place all the time but no preparation is ever made for them.

The Bay Bridge is being reconstructed right now at a cost of many millions to make it earthquake proof, and most buildings have been retrofitted. New buildings aren't even allowed in the worst spots, and where they are allowed, building requirements include earthquake resistant foundations.

I'd like to see the active hurricane states put their utility lines underground, add the proper roof and shutter protections, get rid of hot water tanks and switch to flow-through hot water heating, and set up solar generators at all residences and standalone generators at all businesses. Either that, or just abandon the storm-prone areas. All the big trees should be removed from around little houses, and mobile homes should be weatherproofed or banned.

You see a lot of concern about earthquakes by responsible liberals in California which take place every 50 or 100 years in California, yet people in the South have many hurricanes just as devastating as one earthquake but taking place EVERY YEAR and do NOTHING to prevent disastrous outcomes.

Go figure.

Answer 3

I've lived here for 29 years, Have only felt 3 earthquakes.

Answer 4

Really not to many, maybe in the 15 years I lived there!!
I am have experienced 1-2 bad ones, meaning that when
u watched TV there was damage from them, like broken glass... Same as tornados...If you are thinking of moving there go for if....I feel that since I have been back in the mid-west, that the tornados do far worse damage..

Answer 5

well I live in L.A and here we experience about 3 or 4 mild earthquakes but nothing big just minor shakes.