It's a slideshow rather than an article, making quoting from it awkward. Here's one of the "Brutal Truths" that is underwhelming:
California’s geographic location and climate make it prone to various natural disasters, including earthquakes, wildfires, and mudslides. These events cause significant damage to infrastructure, property, and ecosystems, and pose ongoing challenges for disaster preparedness and recovery.
Earthquakes? A major earthquake probably happens somewhere in California every 10 or 30 years. That "somewhere" is a significant qualifier, as California is the third largest of US states. It's about 800 miles straight-line from the border with Mexico to the border of Oregon, and about 180 miles shortest straight line from SF to the Nevada border. Much/most of California doesn't have an active fault and isn't close enough to one to feel even a major earthquake. Where I grew up (Yolo County), nearly 18 years, I never felt an earthquake. When the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake happened, magnitude 6.9 IIRC, my parents did not feel it, but did see a hanging decoration sway. They lived about 150 miles from that quake's epicenter.
TL;DR version of the above, major earthquakes happen decades apart, and most Californians don't or barely feel earthquakes.
But since we're talking natural disasters:
How many tornadoes happen
every year in a Tornado Alley state? My SIL in NE Kansas kept the Weather Channel on in her home constantly during tornado season.
How often are Florida or a Gulf state threatened by a hurricane or major tropical storm? Every year or two? Maybe a couple a year?
Wanna talk about blizzards in northern and northeastern US states? How many days in summer is the temp in Arizona over 105F?
It doesn't take observational super powers to realize that there is no part of the world that doesn't have some type of natural-disaster suck, many far worse in frequency and impact than California's earthquakes, wildfires, and mudslides,
combined.
