Some of you will doubtless have seen the little media flurry earlier this week when it was revealed (to little surprise around here) that California will almost certainly suffer a major earthquake sometime in the next 30 years. For the benefit of those of you who are now deciding that you’ll never again travel to California because it is too dangerous I present a nice little map which shows not only the earthquake probabilities but where they are liable to occur. Obviously the shock from any quake will travel, but much of the state is actually pretty safe.

Of course those of us who live on top of a fault line are somewhat more in the firing line, but 30 years is a long time, especially at my age. I’m not too worried.