Okay, *if* the Loma Prieta earthquake, in the final analysis, was on the SAF, what does that say about the fault itself? That in SF in 1906, it was capable of an 8.3, but in Aptos, in 1989, it produced only a 7.1. For a fault as long as the SAF, are there sections of it capable of an 8+, and others just capable of a 7+? This question has been festering for years, and it is only now that I am giving it voice. Other predictors think the SAF is only capable of an 8+ earthquake, relegating LP to an event on some other fault, like the Sargeant Fault. I want to hear from some scientists, that LP was our Big One because it occurred on the SAF, even though it was only a 7.1. I will sleep better believing this. Scientists?

Cathryn