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Well, since those quakes were just over two centuries ago...
The midwest isn't built to deal with quakes; they don't have the building codes that help buildings survive good-sized temblors. Also, the middle part of the country is more or less one large slab of rock, as opposed to the little shreds and scraps that make up California. (Mostly bits of the ocean floor scraped off as it subducts under the North American plate.) So it all shakes as one piece, and has significant effects much further away than out here.
Of course, we don't have nearly as many tornadoes out here in CA. Everywhere has Bad Stuff that happens there...
The midwest isn't built to deal with quakes; they don't have the building codes that help buildings survive good-sized temblors. Also, the middle part of the country is more or less one large slab of rock, as opposed to the little shreds and scraps that make up California. (Mostly bits of the ocean floor scraped off as it subducts under the North American plate.) So it all shakes as one piece, and has significant effects much further away than out here.
Of course, we don't have nearly as many tornadoes out here in CA. Everywhere has Bad Stuff that happens there...
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