It's possibly more dangerous in terms of odds of dying to earthquake to live in Washington state because the building standards there were not updated to reflect the risk until 1994 or so, and for the roughly 5,000 living/working below the historic tsunami wave line from the last one, there is no escape if they can't get out in fifteen minutes.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...