SQLGeek wrote:knotquiteawake wrote:Having lived in Southern California its really amusing to see the east coast get shut down for a little 'ol 5.9 Earthquake. Although I suppose they laugh when they hear about freeways getting shutdown because of an inch of snow in Southern California.
I was born and raised in the Bay Area. I was thinking the same thing. My neighbors are the same way when we talk about earthquakes and I can't help but smile. I guess it is all just what we're used to.
I think people unacquainted with earthquakes fail to comprehend how the Richter scale works. The 1964 Alaska earthquake - a 9.2 - was, according to my Wikipedia-based calculations, 125,000 times more powerful than this 5.9.