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On second look, maybe not. Perhaps Walter Jon Williams "The Rift" The Rift

From the description I lean to the "2030: ... " book.
Another book with an Earthquake and a few problems with society which are all to real, The Shockwave Rider.
Highly recommended, even if it contains only a fraction of what is searched for and the writing-style is not for all:
it is a puzzle of short pieces of different stories like flipping through the channels of TV, to be assembled by the reader.
The future predicted in the time it was written is eerily accurate, down to the stock-market and small computers in our homes.
When did you read it? We always need to know that. Was the author male or female? Remember the cover? Was this a Christian post-apocalyptic book? Paper book, ebook, other format?

On second look, maybe not. Perhaps Walter Jon Williams "The Rift" The Rift"
I enjoyed "The Rift," a great disaster novel set in the Mississippi valley. My favorite part was the "Huck and Jim" adventure of the White kid and the Black man journeying downriver through the devastation.

Thank you, that's the book. Now I have to end this thread before I annoy anybody else.

Thank you, that's the book. Now I have to end this thread before I annoy anybody else."
You're welcome.
Aging baby-boomers are such a dominant force in American politics that almost the only spending the government does is on Social Security and Medicare. No budget left for FEMA, education, or anything that is much help to people under the age of 65 because old folks will not allow taxes to be raised to cover spending on anything that benefits younger people or the country at large.
The 80-year-old loses his wonderful retirement home due to the earthquake, and because the economy is so fragile due to a largely impotent government, the condominium's insurance can't get him and his neighbors anything better than rooms on an anchored cruise ship, where things quickly go downhill.
The other plot line involves a young woman of about college age who can't really get anywhere because she's not wealthy.
The maguffin is the huge earthquake that virtually wrecks the US economy and turns the US into a third-world country, at least until these baby-boomers die or otherwise stop voting and quit strangling the country.