Has an earthquake ever complicated or prevented a safe landing/takeoff?
Yes, there have been aircraft landing at the moment an earthquake hit. Here is an article about one in 2011: Air NZ plane landed as Christchurch earthquake hit

&quot;It was creepy as... as the plane came down, you could see all the windows in the terminal just rolling, and all the shuttles that go out to the plane were in the tarmac just rolling.
&quot;Somebody shouted out 'oh my god, it's an earthquake!'&quot;
&quot;We came down and couldn't get out, and there was a big shake while we were still in the plane. Then we sat there for an hour.

This is of course from the point of view of a passenger, not the pilots.