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Well, it is only a small part of California that would rip away and that will happen with time, not requiring a massive earthquake.
And that is the problem with the Richter scale (and why seismologists don't really care for it). It measures one feature of earthquakes (shaking) that isn't necessarily useful for measuring outcomes or the nature of the quake.
Depending on where and how deep it happens, a 6.3 earthquake can be very different things.
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