Anchorage, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego, Salt Lake City, St. Louis, Memphis, Louisville, Charlestown, DC, New York, NY, Boston, Las Vegas, Portland, Little Rock, and Reno, NV are all high on the earthquake hit list.
San Francisco, San Jose, Los angeles, Long Beach San Diego and Sacramento are also near earthquake zones but do not have nearly the level of threat as the 4 listed above
earthquake zones are located in and around the mid-ocean ridge.
In subduction zones.
Chile and Japan.
The majority of earthquake zones are located at tectonic pate boundaries because it is the relative motion of the plates that causes earthquakes.
LosAngles, San Fransisco, and Seattle LosAngles, San Fransisco, and Seattle
earthquake and volcano activity zones are located where tectonic plates meet and either converge diverge or slide past each other.
The Ring of FireMid-Atlantic RidgesThe Mediterranean-Asian Belt
Look in the related link below for a map showing you this.
Building earthquake-resistant structures n earthquake zones is a mitigation activity.
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they are major zones of volcanic and earthquake activity.