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The log10 Richter scale can give people a really off idea of magnitude. 5.6 is really nothing (I didn't feel it at all in SF). 6.6 would be 10x stronger ; Loma Prieta was around a 7.0 which makes it about 25X stronger.

It would be sort of funny in a horrible way if SF got smacked with a massive earthquake just as San Diego is getting torched by wildfires.


LOL at Wikipedia's Richter scale strength reference page. 12.0 magnitude = fault Earth in half through center.