San Fransisco? Not really. The largest San Andreas earthquake is probably 8.0 plus or minus, probably an order of magnitude smaller than Japan's. The damage w

San Fransisco? Not really. The largest San Andreas earthquake is probably 8.0 plus or minus, probably an order of magnitude smaller than Japan's. The damage will be comparable because because the fault runs through an urban area. The most likely next earthquake will be on the Hayward or Rogers Creek faults, still smaller. There may be hundreds killed, but not thousands, because there wont be that type of tsunami. Seattle OTOH is a place to avoid. Possibly a 9 earth quake. Volcanoes. Lahars that could sweep the land nude to the ocean. Now if you are a tsunami maven, Google La Palma tsunami (Canary Islands). That monster will be thousands of feet high and hit the east coast with a wave perhaps hundreds of feet high.