The damage from earthquakes tends to be a ripple of the ground in the first few meters and that’s it.
The damage from earthquakes tends to be a ripple of the ground in the first few meters and that’s it.
This isn't to say that engineering around these sorts of events is impossible. The Transalaksa oil pipeline crosses the Denali fault, and during the M7.9 Denali earthquake in 2002, the pipeline survived because it was built on sliders near the fault so it would bend when the earth shifted instead of breaking [3]. However, this is a big bend in the pipe; the lateral displacements are on the order of 5-10 m in an earthquake of this size, over a similar across-fault distance. Do you want to go at Hyperloop velocities through a tube with a bend this sharp?
[1]: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.833...
[2]: https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/modified-mercalli-intensit...