Fresno reportedly felt the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in northern California The last “big one ... whether it’s a 6.5 or an 8.0, largely depends on the proximity to urbanized areas.

The last “big one”-level moments in California’s recorded earthquake ... The impact that a large earthquake has, whether it’s a 6.5 or an 8.0, largely depends on the proximity to urbanized ...

There are a number of examples of this in California and Nevada, where there is a statistically significant correlation of the locations of M ≥ 4 earthquakes and the edges of 19th and 20th century ...