That's a bit like saying that Japan is uninhabitable because it experience devastating >9.0 earthquakes and accompanying tsunamis perhaps 1-2 times per millenni

That's a bit like saying that Japan is uninhabitable because it experience devastating >9.0 earthquakes and accompanying tsunamis perhaps 1-2 times per millennia as seen most recently in 2011. Disasters happen but people rebuild, that's just the way it is. A full rupture of the Cascadia subduction[1] zone that that article[2] references would be devastating but would hardly end human occupation of the U.S. west coast. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_subduction_zone [2]https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...