re: #8 aceofwhat?

The log10 base of the richter scale can understate these things. An 8.8 is 100 times more powerful than the Haiti quake. My mind is having trouble wrapping around a magnitude like that…

Momma Nature has a way of bitch slapping us in every conceivable direction. (And in some that haven’t even occurred to us.)

She’s working up something else right now…(snorting and hocking sound)

Hellooo! Yellowstone Caldera?