9km, eh? I used to laugh at people who made a big deal out of a 3.0 quake. Then one night there was a lowly 2.8 quake about 300m from my house (might have been directly under it, depending on the location quality). The depth according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network was 0km. It was certainly nothing like the M5-M6 quakes I've experienced, but it woke me from a deep sleep and got my immediate attention. I can't imagine how it would feel to be directly above an M6.5 or M7.

For all anyone knows, the M3.4 quake in Basel might have relieved stress that would otherwise have accumulated and flattened the town with an M6 20-30 years from now.

No "random" data that you get from the net should be trusted. I throw old 16-sided gaming dice to generate a transparent X-Y grid, which is then set over the top of my cat's litter box. The positions of the cat turds are normalized against a reference litter box and fed into a fancy matrix algorithm, the output of which is SHA4 hashed and truncated to make the WPA2 key.

You've got be kidding about running four guest vms on your laptop unless you are talking about running them one at a time

I always run one, and sometimes 3-4 VMs on my year-old Thinkpad, using VMWare Server. Most often my official work VM, but other times an Ubuntu-based Asterisk PBX and a couple of W2K3 VMs running a sophisticated Unified Communications telecom app. A couple of times I've run an OpenFiler SAN feeding two W2K3 servers via iSCSI. I can't remember whether I've set them up with Windows clustering or whether that was on a couple of physical servers. This is all for functional testing, not high-throughput load testing.