On: California fault capable of producing a magnitude ...

[tremon]

Italy (Pompeii), Greece (Thera), and Iceland (Eyjafjallajokull) are all in Europe. Africa, most of Russia, and Northern Europe are volcano-free as they're not near fault lines (except the ones in the atlantic ocean and meditteranean sea)

[dragonwriter → tremon]

> Africa, most of Russia, and Northern Europe are volcano-free as they're not near fault lines (except the ones in the atlantic ocean and meditteranean sea)

The East African Rift Zone is both an emerging plate boundary and a locus of volcanic and seismic activity.

[Gibbon1 → tremon]

Comment I read about Pompeii was the soil was really good because of Mount Vesuvius.

How soon we forget the Great Lisbon Earthquake.

North Sea flood of 1953 killed 2500 people.

I suppose there are some happy places unaffected by earthquakes, volcano's, floods, extreme weather. I'm dubious we can all move there.