THIS DESERVES A “YES, BUT:” Jaded West Coast Chuckles Over East Coast Quake. What’s notable about the East Coast quake is how far away it was felt. This suggests that a really big East Coast quake — which could happen — would create much more widespread damage than a comparable West Coast quake, where the very density of fault lines tends to diffuse the earthquake waves before they travel too far. I imagine that scientists looking at seismograph readings are learning some new things about subsurface geology based on the pattern of transmission.

Meanwhile, when the West Coast gets a blizzard, expect the same kind of chuckles!