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.
talks going again. jenna: leeland, bringing us fresh information on the developing stoergs leeland vitter, thank you very much. jon: there are new fears about a massive earthquake that could devastate california. scientists have been predicting the big one for years, now they re saying the san andreas fault is a ticking time bomb in the heart of that state. there s new evidence suggesting the big one could be bigger than previously thought. lisa grant ludwig from u.c. irvine and co-author of this latest study, lisa, you put a lot of people on edge with this article in the scholarly journal geology, you say this quake along the san andreas fault could happen sooner rather than later. why? well, first of all, i live in california, and i always tell people don t get scared, get prepared. jon: all right. because california is earthquake country and in that sense, we haven t learned anything particularly new there.