1.   If there is a big quake, many homeowners would have to dig deep into their own funds, he said.

2.   In recent years, some experts have debated whether big quakes in India have been triggered by reservoirs, which can leak into the ground.

3.   Many city officials saw the episode as an almost welcome test run for a big quake or other major disaster.

4.   One new theory of earthquake prediction -- based on the observation that big quakes are always preceded by unusual periods of seismic calm -- seems particularly promising.

5.   Safeco has contracted with two think tanks, one in Boston and one in Palo Alto, Calif., to recalculate what a really big quake would cost.

6.   Scientists say they cannot say much with precision about the actual timing of the next big quake, however, other than to say it is surely coming.

7.   TAHOE JOLTED by big quake?

8.   That motion resulted from three or four big quakes on the fault, Schwartz says.

9.   There have been several other big quakes recently.