Sh*t, that's huge.
"Hugh" on FR.
That would qualify as the 'understatement of the day'.
I've felt a 7. I'm in Las Vegas and that thing went off in So Cal. And I mean to tell ya - we FELT it! Hanging speakers whacking the wall, water sloshing out of the pool, etc.
Have you ever seen / read the first hand accounts of the big one in Alaska? Ground in continuous motion for 4 - 5 minutes, etc.?
I could not imagine being really close to something of that immense power. Hard for the mind to comprehend something like that, ya know?
LVM
Sure is. It's now been revised upward from 8.1 to 8.5. Big boom.