When I lived in that general area, there was a 7.1 or 7.2 and I think there was one death. IIRC, it was due to a heart attack and locals joked it was in reaction to the amount of liquor bottles broken in some liquor store because photos of the broken bottles got splashed all over the papers as one of the bigger points of damage.
A train was derailed in that quake and I think someone broke their arm but no one died because it was going unusually slow for a passenger train, having been scheduled behind a slow-moving freight train.
We had aftershocks for weeks that interfered with my sleep. Some of the aftershocks were above a 5.0.
We didn't have much damage, but walking through the neighborhood afterward I counted about 20 houses that slid off their foundations.