Yeah, we felt it. My monitors clanked against each other. Something on vRusczyk's desk rattled. It was so unimpressive, I asked, "Was that an earthquake." nsato confirmed it was. Then the phone calls and the emails from friends and family start -- are you OK? I'm like, huh? Why wouldn't I be?

Then I went to the gym, 2 hours later, and saw the coverage. Breathless reporters interviewing people, who are saying, with variation, "Stuff shook, but nothing really happened." There was even a couple minutes of a shot from inside a car of a reporter driving to a rehab center where someone reported that there might have possibly been an injury. No, we don't get the injury -- we get the reporter on the way to the possible injury. (Not that the injury would really be worth national cable news.)

Then, the wise host intoning about how people in Southern California are so blase about the whole thing... Wow, us Southern Californians, so stoic in the face of such great danger!!! Um, no, not really. Nothing happened.

We even get a couple minutes of some government official patting himself on the back for their response to the quake, because they learned so much from Katrina. Um, but. . . NOTHING HAPPENED.

But now at least I learn why friends and family were so concerned, because the news painted this as some great disaster. Is the media bored or lazy?

It's still the top headline on Yahoo, so it's not just cable. Of course, to be fair, Yahoo really shouldn't be considered news.