That scares the heck outta me. Although my family came here from Germany in the 1870s and not one was hurt in any way by a quake.
Maybe I am in denial.
There's some evidence that the Los Angeles basin has been in an unusual seismic lull for the last 150 years or so.
Unfortunately, that's when everyone moved there.
In part because they've trenched a lot of faults and found a lot of prehistoric earthquakes, and also because the total stress release of the earthquakes in the last 100+ years hasn't been nearly enough to relieve the stress in the region.