Big one coming anyday

The New York Times has an article about a largish earthquake in the Los Angeles area today, a 5.4 temblor. (That's what they call it, though Rico is quite sure the locals used other words, in English, Spanish, Tagalog, Chinese, and any of the myriad other languages spoken in the Los Angeles basin.) "The quake, estimated at 5.4 magnitude (reduced from an initial estimate of 5.8), was centered 35 east of downtown Los Angeles in Chino Hills, just south of Pomona in San Bernardino county. It was felt as far east as Las Vegas and as far south as San Diego."

Rico says he was in Oakland for the Loma Prieta quake, a lot bigger (about 6.9), back in '89; that was more than enough for him: "The quake killed 63 people throughout northern California, injured 3,757 people and left some 8,000 to 12,000 people homeless... The worst disaster of the earthquake was the collapse of the two level Cypress Section of Interstate 880 in West Oakland. Forty-two people died and many more were injured."