this is a lot more energy and does damage over a larger region and again points to us all taking responsibility for being ready for the earthquake. we need a kit and plan and think about the buildings that we are living in and the final piece we need to look to new technologies in order to reduce the earthquake problem. and one of the things we are working on is a earthquake warning system. i am looking at the video we of the earthquake, richard, one in 1989. i lived in san francisco and where i grew up and i remember that earthquake well and the power was extreme and breaking apart part of the bay bridge, one of the things we are seeing on the screen right now. thing to remember that is not a magnitude eight. if it occurs through the bay area, it would be bigger. that s scary and looking at footage we are seeing there.
you re talking about, if it the big one that you re talking about, if it does get that series of small quake, you re talking about 8.1 on the richter scale for the quake? it could, if the whole southern half of the san andreas fault went, it could produce an 8.1 magnitude earthquake. jon: we saw what an earthquake of that magnitude did in haiti. obviously haiti does not have the building codes we have in this country and it only exacerbated the damage. that s right. jon: you re telling people to get prepared. how do you get prepared for an 8.1? we know in california we have an earthquake problem and we started, in 2008, we started this exercise called the great shakeout, do it once a year, this year is coming up on october 21st at 10:21 in the morning. onjon we ll get information on our website for people who want to look into that. lisa, thank you very much.