Not sure why post #17 has a smiley face… nothing funny about it…
I do think it’s important to research building codes before you contract for a dorm or apartment. Our house was pre-code and after a 6.1 over 25 years ago (that we were sitting right on top of!) we lost our chimney and though houses to the north and south of us bounced right off their foundations, ours stayed put. But watching our piano hop 10 feet across the room was enough for us to make quite a few changes. We have since shear-walled and bolted our house to a new reinforced foundation. We also completely tore down the masonry fireplaces.
I am also blessed by a neighbor who is a very well known seismologist at Cal Tech. I figure if she ever pulls up stakes I should probably move. Maybe she knows something? 
To some extent, there is probably more actually danger of being injured in an earthquake in places that never had earthquakes until they started fracking, so buildings are not build to the same codes that they are in CA. I know that when I went to college in Texas after growing up in NorCal, it took me some time to get over the idea of being inside an unreinforced masonry structure. Probably more dangerous now than it was then. Oklahoma will only get worse.
I moved to CA for grad school after living in the midwest. My response to the earthquake question (I got it then, too) was that my odds of getting in a car accident in winter weather was higher than my odds of being injured in an earthquake.
Think about what you would do in an earthquake. If you go to a school in California, are you going to get anxiety from worrying whether there will be an earthquake that day? You don’t want to go through college terrified that something bad is going to happen. Be comfortable.
“Friend told me that she didn’t want to go to a CA school because she was afraid of earthquakes.”
"My brother-in-law would not let his D go to LSU “cuz I’m afraid a her gettin et by alligators.”
Reasonable concerns. LOL