They've been talking about the "big one" ever since I can remember, obviously no one can predict anything regarding earthquakes, the Northridge quake in 1994 was fairly big @ 6.7, the level of devastation from that earthquake was significant. I personally don't care much about natural disasters such as flood, fire, earthquake, tornado and hurricane, I learn to take life as it comes, and if it's time, it's time, nothing we can do.