[staytrue]

The quake and tsunami combo was comparable to a speck of dust floating onto a beach ball

True, but we are talking only 3 microseconds here. That is about 1 part in 10 billion.

[hispanarepublicana]

There's a not-very-lady-like joke about the difference between 4 microseconds and 3 microseconds...the punchline involves the length of time it takes a drop of water to splash up out of a toilet bowl.