can I just say? it's some bullshit when USGS downgrades an earthquake a bunch in the hours after it happens.

that's just straight up gaslighting. "oh, you woke up scared in the middle of the night but felt reassured by the significant number we assigned to it? psych, you coward, it was actually way less."

way to invalidate my experience of the earthquake, USGS.

@eniatitova one of the first things I learned in geology was “the Richter scale is stupid”