This is what I've been thinking lately. It would be catastrophic. I was looking on those links for possible solutions or measures to minimize the harm but found none. Then again, I thought those 'duck n don't run' tips are not gonna work out there. Just looking at those concrete jungles so densed and attached together, which look like piled-up bricks from up above there is nothing we can do much. Those buildings are no way in any standard to withstand anykind of shock. Even the mighty technology in Japan which always flaunted about their shock-proof buildings couldn't really handle major earthquakes in the past. There is no place to feel safe and nothing much we can do against mother natures wrath should it happen. But say if the same scale quakes occurs in some plain green grassland, are there gonna be any loss of life? No, not at all. So, it's the structures and buildings that's gonna take lifes, not the earthquake itself. I blame how our system doesn't moderate how building should be built. I feel sorry for them. Prayers for everyone in advance.