Residents watch fire consume the city after the 1906 San Francisco quake. (AP)

Thanks to Kathryn Schulz's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2015 New Yorker article, "The Really Big One," Portlanders expect to be subsumed by the earth at any time. You'll remember this quote:

"Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast."

But it turns out there might be worse places to live in the U.S. if you're worried about earthquakes -- and some of them are a surprise. That's according to The Cheat Sheet, which last month used data from the United States Geological Survey to rank 15 cities "in real danger of experiencing a devastating earthquake."

The list -- and more information -- is below.

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1. Memphis

Well, this is indeed a surprise. Says the USGS: "Memphis lies within the New Madrid seismic zone, which is the most seismically active and well-studied region in the Central and Eastern U.S."

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L.A. in a scene from the 1974 movie "Earthquake." (AP)

2. Los Angeles

You've probably heard of the San Andreas fault.

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San Francisco after the famous 1906 earthquake. (AP)

3. San Francisco

See "Los Angeles" above. The famous 1906 quake in San Francisco was estimated to be magnitude 7.9. More than 3,000 people were killed and most of the city was destroyed.

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Seattle's Pioneer Square after a 2001 quake. (AP)

4. Seattle

"If there's one city scientists are most worried about, it might be Seattle," The Cheat Sheet writes. "While the major California cities have the San Andreas fault to worry about, Seattlites have the Cascadia subduction zone to deal with, an area in which the Earth's crust is being forced below the North American land mass."

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5. Oklahoma City

Really? Yep, mainly thanks to oil-extraction work.

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Anchorage in the aftermath of the 1964 Alaska quake. (AP)

6. Anchorage

The 49th state gets a lot of earthquakes. Go to the Alaska Earthquake Center website and you'll see there have been a bunch of them just this month. A massive Alaska quake in 1964 killed more than 100 people.

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7. Tulsa

A 4.0 magnitude quake rattled the area on Sunday.

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8. Dallas

Another surprise. "[T]he risk of a major earthquake hitting the Dallas region has increased 10 times over the past few years, according to USGS data," the Cheat Sheet writes. The Metroplex had nine earthquakes at 3 or higher on the Richter scale in a little over a year in 2014-15. Still, seeing as oil/gas extraction is the likely reason for the surge, the Texas city, like the Oklahoma ones, probably should be much lower on the list.

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9. Portland

You know all about the Rose City's risk. If not, check out Schulz's article.

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10. Salt Lake City

Utah's capital is due for a big one. The city sits atop the Wasatch fault.

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11. Honolulu

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12. Wichita

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13. New York City

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14. Charleston

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15. Washington, D.C.

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Check out how the Cheat Sheet reached its conclusions.