LOL! It is good to know that you enjoy reading about earthquakes.
I've lived here in California for over 55 years, surrounded by five major earthquake faults in the immediate vicinity of my home. I love earthquakes. I love reading about them. As an engineer, I love learning about the advancements in geologic sciences. My computer is set a single click away from the USGS California, U.S. and worldwide earthquake maps and I review them nearly every day.
And it was in that light that I posted the USGS table in #5 so that other lurkers and posters, who don't have the same intimate familiarity with earthquakes, would be able to learn that the earthquakes, as small as being reported here (and on other FR threads), are considered as trivial and common as ants at a picnic and just about as dangerous.
So I'm still puzzled as to why events as trivial as these would be posted so often on the country's premier conservative political forum.
--Boot Hill