That’s my point - I think fire is a density thing and there is a lot of it in most buildings. We have had some earthquakes of greater magnitude than 7.9, and s

That’s my point - I think fire is a density thing and there is a lot of it in most buildings. We have had some earthquakes of greater magnitude than 7.9, and some with truely massive ground movement relative to their magnitude. Napier earthquake (7.8) would be the closest in time and magnitude, but the population was tiny (<20k) in comparison to San Fransisco so building density was much lower. We have had some very bad ones, but the low population has been helpful but some cities (like Christchurch) have been hit very hard. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Hawke%27s_Bay_earthquake https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_Hawke%27s_Bay_earthquak... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_New_Zealand https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_New_Z...