Hard to get too excited by a quake measuring four point four

Four point four?

You're kidding, right? An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter Scale with an epicenter near Encino and people are going nuts tweeting and instagramming and whatever else it is they do these days.

People got so worked up you'd think Bieber had done something.

Seriously, I suppose this is what happens when there hasn't been a real earthquake for a while. It has been 20 years since the Northridge quake, which was 6.7 with extremely high ground acceleration.

That one did damage. Apartment buildings collapsed, freeway bridges buckled, people died. Fifty-seven, by official count with another 8,700 injured.

This one couldn't compare, although it was noteworthy in that it was the first quake recorded with an epicenter in the Santa Monica Mountains.

No damage was reported anywhere.

Like I said ...

Four point four?