What is the most earthquake safe neighborhood in the Greater Los
Angeles Area?  This place would combine safe distance from faultlines
with non-liquefying ground and up-to-date home construction. Of lesser
importance would be good civic emergency response, as well as
likelihood of getting water and power up fastest.  I would also like
to know what other factors would contribute to making it through a
major, "Big One" catastrope, including whether being in an apartment
building or a house is safer.

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Clarification of Question by madog-ga on 07 Sep 2005 16:08 PDT

I am not asking which areas won't feel an earthquake (I know they all
will), but which areas a person would be most likely to survive the
earthquake safely and with comparably less disruption.

Hello madog-ga,

The California Geological Survey offers some wonderful interactive
maps that will help you explore the seismicity of the greater Los
Angeles area. The Interactive Quadrangle Map helps you choose the area
of Los Angeles that you want to explore. You will have to use other
sources for getting the correlated information for civic emergency
response and likelihood of recovery from power and water outages.
There are so many variables involved that you need to do the
preliminary explorations on your own. You might want to post a new
question once you've identified a target community and gather the
additional information just for that city.

All the best.

~ czh ~

http://gmw.consrv.ca.gov/shmp/index.htm
California Department of Conservation
California Geological Survey

http://gmw.consrv.ca.gov/shmp/MapProcessor.asp?Action=Quad&Location=SoCal
Seismic Hazard Mapping 
Southern California Interactive Quadrangle Map

 -- Liquefaction Zones   
 -- Landslide Zones   
 -- Boreholes 
 -- Highways   
 -- Cities

Since I'm just a commentator (and they aren't accepting applications
for new people), I usually comment on a topic that I find of interest
or know something about.  Living in Los Angeles about 95% of my life,
I've felt them everywhere.  However, I know you want some scientific
data on the matter, so these 2 pages caught interest.

http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/states/california/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault

I believe that your question will require more time
and effort than the average amount of time and effort associated
with this price.  Here is a link to guidelines about pricing
your question, https://answers.google.com/answers/pricing.html

Nenna-GA
Google Answers Researcher