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That sounds like a great idea -- more lives lost when the Big One hits!

Downtown Vancouver disagrees with you:

Because the big one will not affect the rest of California?

I'll see you down in Arizona Bay, I guess. Though the Bay Area does have the recent earthquake track record that Southern California doesn't.

The brute fact of the matter is that it's the height of human folly that people are moving into this area: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/nca/ucerf/