Shake it, like a ladder to the sun.

So we've had ourselves a couple of earthquakes here in So Cal in the past few days. We had a 4.7 hit on Sunday night and a 4.0 after shock hit today (both of which were epicentered (not a word is it?) about 10-15 miles from my house). I'll admit earthquakes are scary and they tend to shake me up a bit (pun intended). I mean, when your world around you literally shakes, it's enough to kind of make you sweat. But once you realize the quake is over and nothing's damaged, there's no need to worry anymore.

And BIG earthquakes are definitely a big deal. But in turn, according to one of those mathematical proportion properties that I didn't pay enough attention in 7th grade math class to to remember the name of, when they're not big, they're really not that big a deal. But OF COURSE, local news covers the hell out of it. I watched some news coverage on Sunday night and they had reporters "on the scene" of the earthquake. And that's hilarious to me because if you felt the earth shaking, you were "on the scene". No need to travel anywhere news reporters. Just step outside your news room and you'll be standing on earth, which is where the earthquake occurred. I mean, I get, I do. The earth shakes and you gotta cover it. But just give us what we need to hear like the magnitude, the epicenter, damages, etc. No need for the interviews from those who felt it. They're all gonna say the same thing: "Yeah, well at first I wasn't sure what was happening. I just thought maybe I was a little dizzy. Then by the time I realized it was an earthquake, it was done. " Or the inarticulate dude who's trying to describe his experience: "Well...uhh....I felt like the ground shake...and then like, a boom kinda thing....and I was like, 'Is this an earthquake?' And it was. Then it stopped."

I also think it's funny when the news helicopters are sent out to cover an earthquake. The helicopter makes sense if there are damages and you want to show an aerial view of such damages. But in a 4.0 aftershock in which the worst thing that happened was a leaf being shaken off a tree in the backyard of the house sitting right on the epicenter, the helicopter has NOTHING to show. "And you can see here the area where the earth WAS shaking. Some people on the ground said they could feel it, but even if our helicopter had this shot while it was happening, we still wouldn't have been able to see the ground shaking. As you can see there is very little activity down there as no damages have occurred and most people have already forgotten that there even was an earthquake." I mean, c'mon now! The only thing today's helicopter was good for was delaying my drive home since it was hovering right over the freeway I take home and everyone was slowing down to try to figure out what the hell it was looking at! Well my fellow traffic patrons, it was looking at the earthquake. It. Was. Looking. At. The. Earthquake. Thanks earth. I'm boycotting earth day next year.