[FPGAhacker]

It does, and the article affirms this. However it's a question of relative magnitude. The energy dissipated by the smaller quakes is dwarfed in comparison to larger quakes. The energy of a 5.5 quake is on the order of 1/1000th the energy of a mag 7 quake.

[rjurney]

I guess things didn't end up working that way today. Or maybe the 6.4 prevented the 7.1 from being even stronger :(