I thought about this some years ago and the recent earthquake in Japan brought it up again.<p>What would happen if such an earthquake would hit Silicon Valley? Many data centers seem to be out of the Valley for this reason, but what about all the offices of tech companies and the homes of their employees?<p>How hard would this hit the tech industry?
I think one major thing is that SV is not exposed to giant tsunamis. Does anyone know for sure if the narrow entrance to the bay would prevent the kind of devastation caused by a tsunami? Could a tsunami be generated inside the bay? It seems to me that a lot of the damage in Japan (including the nuke plants) was from the tsunami not the earthquake itself.