This is true everyone i know uses it all the time
The italicized word (magnitude) in the sentence can best be matched by the word: size. This is referring to the size of the disaster, that it is hard to imagine something happening on that size scale.
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The answer is a stick because an alchemist is someone who transforms or create something through a seemingly magical process.