Gadabout, wow!

You see it as intelligent to build tall buildings in earthquake zones and you see it as intelligent for people to live in tall buildings in earthquake zones.

Okay, well, thank you for sharing your curious interpretation of what the word "intelligent" means.

Not sure how to square that with your last comment, though, where you say that "those who keep themselves in a danger zone" are not smart. 

Hello? 

A tall building in an earthquake zone is perpetually in a danger zone.

Oh well, hopefully the amazing scientists you pretend exist will save the day, the ones who can somehow predict earthquakes two days in advance kind of like the make-believe super-scientist in the old 1970's Charlton Heston movie "Earthquake".