lots of little ones are better than one big one.
Maybe. And the entire Midwest could be sitting balanced on plate, which is teeter on a cliff the size of Ohio....
Even bedrock can be liquefied or pounded into the consistency of oatmeal, by massive fault slippage, causing entire buildings to go under and repeated aftershocks.
Just hope you don’t get hit with a massive horizontal shift...it’s like crack the whip...There is no warning...It’s like ridding in the back of a pickup, when the driver just slams on the brakes, then punches it again.