NO MORE EARTHQUAKES...PLEASE!

[Anomalocaris]

The truly sad fact is that tectonic plates don't give a shit what you want.
Bummer.

But a casual look at a few geology maps would give a reasonably good idea of where not to live if you are allergic to earthquakes, but still we complain.

Any suggestions gratefully accepted

If you live a few hundred miles away from any tectonic plate boundaries your chances of being struck by any earthquakes decline exponentially. Any earthquake activity that do happen here tends to happen at one of the few locations where a triple point happened sometime in the distant geological past, where those are is also easy to find on a map. Where there are no active tectonic plates there tends to be subdued topography and land slides also tend to be rare. If you don't like forest fires don't live near forests. If you don't like floods don't live in flood plains. Most of the world's tornados happen in the American midwest, so if you live away from the American Midwest you are relatively safe from tornados. Hurricans does the most damage near the coast. Live away from coast and hurricanes become much les dangerous. Living away from the coast also brings the benefit of keeping you safe from distant earthquakes brought to you via tsunamis.

So to sum up: Don't live in New Zealand, New Zealand exists because of tectonic plate boundary. Live in Australia, Australia hasn't had a tectonic plate boundary near it for 100 million years. As a consequence of being totally tectonically boring, Australia has boring topography relatively unsusceptible to land slides. Also as a result of being tectonically boring for so long Australia's soil is more depleted then usual and large forests don't take and massive forest fires are rare. In Australia live away from the shore and behind the barrier reef so distant earthquakes can reach out and touch you via tsunami. Don't love too close to a river, don't live near where there are fuel for wild fire.