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If this past week’s 5.4 Chino Hills quake rattled your nerves, you’d best brace yourself for The Big One that experts say has a better than 99 percent chance of striking California by 2038. To help prepare you, here’s an 8-minute excerpt from a PBS documentary focusing on the San Andreas Fault and highlighting a few of the real shakers from our past.

Drive-By Shot: While cruising along Main Street this afternoon, I caught sight of this giant carousel pony in a salvage yard near Avenue 20, at the edge of downtown.

Towering a full story in height, I first thought the equestrian unit might be the project of some artist living and/or working in the nearby lofts. Then I realized our prancing friend is more likely a fugitive from an old Rose Parade float.

Whatever he’s doing here, let’s hope this rusting pony isn’t headed for the glue factory — or in this case, the scrap heap.

There seems far too much spirit left in him for such an ignoble end.