A big enough earthquake could make what happened in 2001 seem like a warm up.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/predicting-the-earthquake-that-could-wreck-new-york
Unfortunately almost any city has the potential of being hit by an earthquake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_activity_in_the_New_York_City_area
https://www.earth.com/news/new-york-city-earthquake/
Fortunately, NYC doesn't get the earthquake frequency like Tokyo and LA do.
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/new-york-could-experience-a-damaging-earthquake
https://nypost.com/2017/09/09/new-york-city-is-overdue-for-a-major-earthquake/
An earthquake can happen almost anywhere on the planet, even in Saudi+Arabia.
https://digital-desert.com , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Desert_Hot_Springs_earthquake
https://digital-desert.com/geology/intro4.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Saudi_Arabia
https://earthquaketrack.com/p/saudi-arabia/biggest
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes/saudi-arabia/largest.html
https://earthquakelist.org/saudi-arabia/
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1227126/amp
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/biggest-earthquake-world-history
Southern Peru desert shattered by the great 2001 earthquake https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0404320101
https://www.arabianbusiness.com/culture-society/saudi-arabia-earthquake-danger-official-report
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Saudi+Arabia
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=earthquakes