something to ponder

To put the latest temblor in perspective: A 7.8 quake would be 3,981 times more powerful than one of magnitude 5.4, according to Anthony Guarino, a seismic analyst at Caltech. l.a. times

the predicted size of "the big one" expected to occur sometime in the future along the san andreas fault is 7.8 magnitude. talk about an exponential increase.

bitchin'!