Just came back from visiting my "baby" sister who sits square on the Hayward Fault in San Leandro. The Bay area is magnificent! And as long as you're not living on filled ground, I don't think living astride an active fault is any more dangerous than living in tornado alley or in the path of annual hurricanes, flooding, forest/brush fires, or mud slides.

A good book to check out is "Assembling California", the name of the author escapes me (I'll post it later). Geology written in a very entertaining way (originally published in sections in The New Yorker). He gives a second by second account of the Loma Prieta earthquake. Fascinating!

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