Now they’re calling it a 9.0 on the Richter scale.

Remember, the scale is logarithmic, so a 9.0 is one hundred times more powerful than a 7.0. For comparison, the Loma Prieta earthquake (the one that disrupted the World Series in 1989) was a 7.1, and the Northridge quake (which killed 54 people and caused over $40 billion in damage in the L.A. area in 1994) was only a 6.7.